Meaning in Motion

by Desmond, Jane C.; Fish, Stanley Eugene; Jameson, Fredric

• ISBN13: 9780822319429
• ISBN10: 082231942X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Excellent! "Meaning in Motion" will make it much easier for scholars concerned primarily with cultural studies to consider the challenges dance poses in 'rethinking the body.'"-- Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Author Biography

Jane C. Desmond is Associate Professor of Ameerican Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Dance and Cultural Studies
Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies	p. 29
Cultural Studies and Dance History	p. 55
Social Lives, Social Bodies
Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics	p. 81
"The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch	p. 101
Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference	p. 111
Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2	p. 121
Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vision of Salome	p. 133
The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance	p. 153
Some Thoughts on Choreographing History	p. 167
Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance	p. 179
Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement	p. 207
Expanding Agendas for Critical Thinking
Dancing Bodies	p. 235
Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It	p. 259
Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures	p. 269
Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath	p. 289
Homogenized Ballerinas	p. 305
Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation	p. 321
Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti	p. 345
Notes on Contributors	p. 379
Permissions	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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