The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History
- Editor: Shiovitz, Brynn Wein
Among this collection's 14 contributions--which include essays from artist scholars A'Keitha Carey, Ninotchka Bennahum, and Michael Sakamoto--are essays that use dance forms such as flamenco,... — More…
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$48.25Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing the Body, Staging the Other (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
- Part 1: Writing the Body
- Mouth Over Matter: Writing Early Tap Dance in the Margins
- of the Black Body (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
- Spain in the Basement: Dancing Race and Nation at the
- Paris Exposition, 1900 (Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg)
- White Dreadlocks: Black Aesthetics in the Work of Louise
- Lecavalier and La La La Human Steps (MJ Thompson)
- Flowers of Menace: Stephen Petronio’s Rites of Spring Constance Valis Hill
- Part 2: Transmissions and Traces
- Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness and the
- USA Freedom Kids (Michelle T. Summers)
- Escape Routes and Roots: Rewriting the Narrative of the
- Vulgar Body (A’Keitha Carey)
- Lo Que Queda/That Which Remains: Dancing Bodies,
- Historical Erasure and Cultural Transmission (Michelle Heffner Hayes)
- Screaming Soundscapes: The Sounds of Puerto Rican Contemporary Performance in the Work of Teresa Hernández and Ivette Román
- (Lydia Platón Lázaro)
- Part 3: Staging the Other
- Always Already: The Jewish Body as Victim and Victimizer (Rebecca K. Pappas)
- Israel Galván’s Aesthetic Anarchism: An Ethics Instantiated
- in Motion (Ninotchka D. Bennahum)
- Brown and Black: Performing Transmission in Trisha Brown’s Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi’s Kamaitachi (Michael Sakamoto and Christopher-Rasheem McMillan)
- The Bustle, the Body and Stillness: Re-Centering Modernities through the Broadway Musical (Gwyneth Shanks)
- Gradations of Presence: Armida in Nineteenth-Century
- Italian Dance Librettos (Melissa Melpignano)
- Choreogrammatics: About the Cover of This Book (Linda Carreiro)
- About the Contributors
- Index