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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789986803321

Autore

Albright Ann Cooper

Titolo

Choreographing difference : the body and identity in contemporary dance / / Ann Cooper Albright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn. : , : Wesleyan University Press

Hanover, N.H. : , : University Press of New England, , 1997

ISBN

1-283-10948-4

9786613109484

0-8195-6991-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

792.8

Soggetti

Modern dance - Social aspects

Modern dance - Psychological aspects

Body image

Identity (Psychology)

Sex in dance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: WITNESSING DANCE; Mining the Dancefield: Feminist Theory and Contemporary Dance; Techno Bodies: Muscling with Gender in Contemporary Dance; Moving Across Difference: Dance and Disability; Incalculable Choreographies; Dancing Bodies and the Stories They Tell; Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African-American Dance; APPENDIX; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist theory illuminates the radical cultural work of contemporary dance.