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The Body, the Dance and the Text Brynn Wein Shiovitz

The Body, the Dance and the Text By Brynn Wein Shiovitz

The Body, the Dance and the Text by Brynn Wein Shiovitz


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Explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the Other. Contributors draw on their varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices, with a focus on movement as a meaning-making process - including the choreographic act of writing.

The Body, the Dance and the Text Summary

The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History by Brynn Wein Shiovitz

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the Other. Contributors draw on their varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices, with a focus on movement as a meaning-making process-including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.

About Brynn Wein Shiovitz

Brynn W. Shiovitz is a lecturer in the department of theatre at UCLA in Los Angeles and dance at Chapman University in Orange County, California. Her writing on dance has appeared in Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, Theatre Survey, Jazz Perspectives and Women and Performance.

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NLS9781476671895
9781476671895
1476671893
The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History by Brynn Wein Shiovitz
New
Paperback
McFarland & Co Inc
2018-12-30
215
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