Suggests a new theory of dance, describes four models for representation in dance, and discusses the work of modern choreographers, including Balanchine, Graham, and Tharp.
The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in "Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance", a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, ...
'This complex and beautifully written investigation of ballet's development in France from the early 18th through the late 19th century extends Foster's earlier efforts to link dance theory and practice...This work is a landmark in the field' - NS. E. Friedler, "Choice". 'Invents a new method for writing the history of performance: Foster has ...
Here, Susan Leigh Foster leads an inquiry into improvization as practised by Richard Bull and his contemporaries. Foster is also the author of "Reading Dancing and Choreography and Narrative".
"Cruising the Performative" explores those social codes that regulate performativity, that constitutes 'performance' and 'performer.' These essays offer expansive new concepts of performance: Ellen Brinks on issues of class identity acted out in the film "Single White Female"; Cynthia Fuchs on the cultural anxieties over race and sex embodied in ...
This collection of essays explores the study of bodily reality - not as a natural or given, but as a substantial, vital constituent of cultural experience. Contributors look at bodies engaged in practices as varied as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, and social and theatrical dance. They succeed in bringing these ...
What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This volume of essays, the product of the authors' collective reckoning with these questions, endeavours to make new epistemological space for the ...
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