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Reading Dancing Susan Leigh Foster

Reading Dancing By Susan Leigh Foster

Reading Dancing by Susan Leigh Foster

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Summary

Outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance.

Reading Dancing Summary

Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance by Susan Leigh Foster

Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Foster outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance.

Reading Dancing Reviews

Susan Foster is a new breed of dancer and choreographer. * New York Times *
Foster proposes a context from which the reader might make, see, or write about dance. * CHOICE *
No other dance book had posited an alternative aesthetic and historical framework beyond its own disciplinary content. In advance of the turn to the body in social theory, dance therefore became a major contributor to the rethinking of history advanced by new historicists, and an art form that could be read within the context of history and politics. . . . Although dance studies is a growing field for undergraduate studies, its critical status depends on texts such as Reading Dancing that can be debated more widely. * Times Higher Education *

Table of Contents


Illustrations
Preface
CHAPTER ONE
Reading Dance: Composing the Choreographer, the Dancer, and the Viewer
Deborah Hay
George Balanchine
Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
Four Bodies and Subjects
CHAPTER TWO
Reading Choreography: Composing Dances
Frames
Modes of Representation
Styles
Vocabularies
Syntaxes
Reading the Performance
CHAPTER THREE
Readings in Dance's History: Historical Approaches to Dance Composition
Allegorical Dance in the Late Renaissance
Neoclassical Dance in the Eighteenth Century
Expressionist Dance in the Early Twentieth Century
Objectivist Dance from 1950 to the Present
CHAPTER FOUR
Writing Dancing: The Viewer as Choreographer in Contemporary Dance
The Grand Union
Meredith Monk
Twyla Tharp
Writing Bodies and Subjects
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR003770217
9780520063334
0520063333
Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance by Susan Leigh Foster
Susan Leigh Foster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
19880422
336
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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