Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Dance and Cultural Studies
1. Jane C. Desmond, Embodying Difference: Issues In Dance and Cultural Studies
2. Norman Bryson, Cultural Studies and Dance History
II. Social Lives, Social Bodies
3. Janet Wolff, Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics
4. Susan Kozel, "The Story Is Told As A History Of The Body": Strategies Of Mimesis In The Work Of Irigaray And Bausch
5. Ann Daly, Classical Ballet: A Discourse Of Difference
6. Evan Alderson, Ballet As Ideology: Giselle, Act 2
7. Amy Koritz, Dancing The Orient For England: Maud Allan's The Vision Of Salome
8. Susan Manning, The Female Dancer And The Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques Of Early Modern Dance
9. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Some Thoughts On Choreographing History
10. Ann Cooper Albright, Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings And Autobiography In Dance
11. Angela Mcrobbie, Dance Narratives And Fantasies Of Achievement
III. Expanding Agendas For Critical Thinking
12. Susan Leigh Foster, Dancing Bodies
13. Anna Beatrice Scott, Spectacle And Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, Hit Don't Fit, Don't Force It
14. Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull, Sense, Meaning, And Perception In Three Dance Cultures
15. Mark Franko, Some Notes On Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, And The Aftermath
16. Marianne Goldberg, Homogenized Ballerinas
17. Randy Martin, Dance Ethnography And The Limits Of Representation
18. Kate Ramsey, Vodou, Nationalism, And Performance: The Staging Of Folklore In Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti
Notes On Contributors
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Index