Rethinking dance history : issues and methodologies
Dance historiantutkimus tanssihistoria tutkimusmenetelmät
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2017
Second edition
EISBN 9781134827633
Part 1. Why dance history? Introduction to Part 1: why dance history? / Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas.
Memory, history and the sensory body: dance, time, identity / Larraine Nicholas.
Cara Tranders's reveries: the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Cara Tranders.
Beyond fixity: Akram Khan on the politics of dancing heritages / Royona Mitra.
African-American dance revisited: undoing master narratives in the studying and teaching of dance history / Takiyah Nur Amin.
Dance works, concepts and historiography / Anna Pakes.
Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / Helen Thomas.
Preserving the repertory and extending the heritage of Merce Cunningham / Karen Eliot.
Making dance history live.
performing the past / Henrietta Bannerman.
Part 2. Researching and writing. Introduction to Part 2: researching and writing / Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas.
Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Alexandra Carter.
Decolonising dance history / Prarthana Purkayastha.
Many sources, many voices / Lena Hammergren.
'Dream no small dreams!': impossible archival imaginaries in dance community archiving in a digital age / Astrid von Rosen.
When place matters: provincializing the 'global' / Emily E. Wilcox.
Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America / Linda J. Tomko.
'Dancin' in the street': street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Beth Genné.
Judson: redux and remix / Marcia B. Siegel.
Ruth Page, feminine subjectivity, and generic subversion / Joellen A. Meglin.
Extensions: Alonzo King and ballet's LINES / Jill Nunes Jensen.
Giselle and the gothic: contesting the romantic idealisation of the woman / Geraldine Morris.
Memory, history and the sensory body: dance, time, identity / Larraine Nicholas.
Cara Tranders's reveries: the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Cara Tranders.
Beyond fixity: Akram Khan on the politics of dancing heritages / Royona Mitra.
African-American dance revisited: undoing master narratives in the studying and teaching of dance history / Takiyah Nur Amin.
Dance works, concepts and historiography / Anna Pakes.
Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / Helen Thomas.
Preserving the repertory and extending the heritage of Merce Cunningham / Karen Eliot.
Making dance history live.
performing the past / Henrietta Bannerman.
Part 2. Researching and writing. Introduction to Part 2: researching and writing / Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas.
Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Alexandra Carter.
Decolonising dance history / Prarthana Purkayastha.
Many sources, many voices / Lena Hammergren.
'Dream no small dreams!': impossible archival imaginaries in dance community archiving in a digital age / Astrid von Rosen.
When place matters: provincializing the 'global' / Emily E. Wilcox.
Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America / Linda J. Tomko.
'Dancin' in the street': street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Beth Genné.
Judson: redux and remix / Marcia B. Siegel.
Ruth Page, feminine subjectivity, and generic subversion / Joellen A. Meglin.
Extensions: Alonzo King and ballet's LINES / Jill Nunes Jensen.
Giselle and the gothic: contesting the romantic idealisation of the woman / Geraldine Morris.
