Decentring dancing texts The challenge of interpreting dances /

Eleven authors analyse recent dance practices in the theatre, in club culture and on film, addressing dance in interdisciplinary relationship with music, painting and play texts. This text attempts to fill a gap with an up-to-date account of exciting and challenging new work, illuminated by fascinat...

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Group Author: Adshead-Lansdale, Janet
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230584426
Summary: Eleven authors analyse recent dance practices in the theatre, in club culture and on film, addressing dance in interdisciplinary relationship with music, painting and play texts. This text attempts to fill a gap with an up-to-date account of exciting and challenging new work, illuminated by fascinating new theoretical frameworks.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 232 p. : 6 b&w, halftones.
ISBN: 9780230542594
9780230584426 :
023058442X :
CLC: G0
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Preface Intertextual Narratives in Dance Analysis-- J.Lansdale Betraying History? An Historiographic Analysis of The Judas Tree (1992)-- A.Carter Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Classicism: Shobana Jeyasingh's Choreography and the Bharata Natyam 'Tradition'-- J.O'Shea Akram Khan's Ma (2004): An Essay in Hybridisation and Productive Ambiguity-- L.Sanders Elusive Narratives: M.Ek & G.Poesio On the Premises of French Contemporary Dance: Concepts, Collectivity, and 'Trojan Horses' in the Work of Jerome Bel and LoIc Touze-- T.D'Amel