What is included with this book?
List of Illustrations | p. xi |
Preface to Second Edition | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgements | p. xviii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Where bodies meet space | p. 2 |
Currency of ideas about space | p. 5 |
Questions of subjectivity | p. 6 |
Reading dances | p. 7 |
Bounded bodies | p. 9 |
In-between spaces | p. 14 |
Inside/outside interfaces | p. 17 |
Constructions of Space and Subjectivity | |
Travel metaphors in dance - gendered constructions of travel, spaces and subjects | p. 27 |
Introduction | p. 27 |
Metaphors of travel in postmodern discourse | p. 28 |
Travel and gender | p. 29 |
Space, power and gender | p. 30 |
Suggestions of travel in the dances | p. 32 |
Gendering of travel, space and subjects in the dance film | p. 35 |
Reappropriating travel metaphors for new subjectivities | p. 40 |
Conclusion | p. 42 |
Transforming city spaces and subjects | p. 43 |
Introduction | p. 43 |
Sixties precedents | p. 44 |
Muurwerk and Step in Time Girls | p. 49 |
Constructed spaces | p. 50 |
Mutual definition of bodies and cities | p. 51 |
Conclusion | p. 56 |
Coastal constructions in Lea Anderson's Out on the Windy Beach | p. 59 |
Introduction | p. 59 |
Eroticized bodies and spaces | p. 63 |
Bodies and boundaries | p. 65 |
Seaside surrealism | p. 68 |
Conclusion | p. 73 |
Dancing in the æIn-Between SpacesÆ | |
Desire spatialized differently in dances that can be read as lesbian | p. 77 |
Introduction | p. 77 |
Lesbian desire refigured | p. 78 |
The performance of gender and sexuality | p. 80 |
The dances - Reservaat (1988), Between/Outside (1999), Virginia Minx at Play (1993) and Homeward Bound (1997) | p. 81 |
Surfaces in contact | p. 83 |
Becoming/transformations in Reservaat and Homeward Bound | p. 85 |
Machinic assemblages in Between/Outside and Reservaat | p. 88 |
Polymorphous perversity and multiplicities in Virginia Minx at Play | p. 92 |
In-between spaces - spatial locations and private/public Boundaries | p. 94 |
Conclusion | p. 95 |
Hybridity and nomadic subjectivity in Shobana Jeyasingh's Duets with Automobiles | p. 97 |
Introduction | p. 97 |
Hybrid spaces between East and West | p. 99 |
Female solidarity and nomadic subjectivity | p. 102 |
Dancers and buildings and the spaces in between | p. 104 |
Mutual construction of bodies and spaces | p. 106 |
Nomadic subjects in cities | p. 108 |
Conclusion | p. 109 |
Crossing the (black) Atlantic: spatial and temporal displacements in Meredith Monk's Ellis Island and Jonzi D's Aeroplane Man | p. 112 |
Introduction | p. 112 |
Meredith Monk and Jonzi D | p. 114 |
The constructed nature of identity | p. 117 |
Technologies of power - subjectification, normalization and examination | p. 123 |
The role of language in operations of power | p. 130 |
Spatial containment, borders and territorialization | p. 132 |
Conclusion | p. 134 |
Inside/Outside Bodies and Spaces | |
Fleshy corporealities in Trisha Brown's If You Couldn't See Me, Lea Anderson's Joan and Yolande Snaith's Blind Faith | p. 139 |
Introduction | p. 139 |
The theories of Deleuze, Bordo and Kristeva | p. 141 |
The dances | p. 144 |
Flesh | p. 146 |
Fluids | p. 153 |
Folds | p. 155 |
Conclusion | p. 161 |
æCarnivalesqueÆ subversions in Mark Morris' Dogtown, Liz Aggiss' Grotesque Dancer and Emilyn Claid's Across Your Heart | p. 162 |
Introduction | p. 162 |
The dances | p. 164 |
Grotesque challenges to boundaries | p. 166 |
Excessive overflows | p. 171 |
Carnivalesque parody | p. 175 |
Grotesque and carnivalesque interactivity with the world | p. 178 |
Conclusion | p. 181 |
Architectural spaces in the choreography of William Forsythe and De Keersmaeker's Rosas Danst Rosas | p. 183 |
Introduction | p. 183 |
The choreographers and dances | p. 186 |
Disrupting the single viewpoint of perspective | p. 189 |
Challenging notions of a separated self | p. 192 |
The role of the visual in the construction of bounded and gendered subjectivity | p. 195 |
Vision and reason - the dominance and construction of the eye/æIÆ | p. 198 |
The ideological nature of visualization | p. 200 |
Conclusion | p. 204 |
Appendix | p. 207 |
Notes | p. 209 |
Bibliography | p. 213 |
Index | p. 223 |
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