Overview

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the ""Other."" Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.

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Author:   Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781476671895

ISBN 10:   1476671893
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   07 February 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

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, tap, dance hall, and postmodern genres to rewrite historical dancing narratives. An informative collection that can be used in composition, criticism and aesthetics, and pedagogy courses, this collection uses historical and cultural frameworks to interrogate the multiplicity of lived experiences. ...recommended --Choice

"""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, tap, dance hall, and postmodern genres to rewrite historical dancing narratives. An informative collection that can be used in composition, criticism and aesthetics, and pedagogy courses, this collection uses historical and cultural frameworks to interrogate the multiplicity of lived experiences. ...recommended""--Choice"

Author Information

Brynn Wein Shiovitz is a lecturer in the department of theatre at UCLA and dance at Chapman University in Orange County, California. Her writing about dance has appeared in Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, Theatre Survey, Jazz Perspectives and Women and Performance.

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