Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance (1995) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041512543X ISBN 13: 9780415125437

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives and represent the debates swirling within dance.
The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examining broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's 'American Document', and the history of oriental dance.

About this title

About the Author

Gay Morris is dance and art critic whose work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, including Dance Chronicle, ArtNews and Art in America. She teaches dance history at Sonoma State University, California

From the Back Cover

The explosive growth of dance studies over the past decade has led to controversies on a host of fundamental issues, from how dance is to be analyzed and interpreted to dance's place in culture and history. The contributors in Moving Words take up these issues, their diverse views reflecting the conceptual clashes of a field in dynamic transition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041512543X
• ISBN 13: 9780415125437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Morris Gay