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Author:   Nadine George-Graves (Professor of Theater and Dance, Professor of Theater and Dance, The University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.678kg
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9780190698072

ISBN 10:   0190698071
Pages:   1056
Publication Date:   31 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction 01. Nadine George-Graves: Magnetic Fields: Too Dance for Theater, Too Theater for Dance Section I: In Theory/In Practice 02. Ann Cooper Albright, Split Intimacies: Corporeality in Contemporary Theater and Dance 03. Anita Gonzalez, Negotiating Theatrics: Dialogues of the Working Man 04. VK Preston, ""How do I touch this text?"": Or, The Interdisciplines Between: Dance and Theatre in Early Modern Archives 05. Ray Miller, Dance Dramaturgy 06. Vida L. Midgelow, Some Fleshy Thinking: Improvisation, experience, perception Section II: Genus (part 1) 07. Maiya Murphy, Fleshing Out: Physical Theater, Postmodern Dance, and Som[e]agency 08. Stacy Wolf and Liza Gennaro, Dance in Musical Theatre 09. Colleen Dunagan, Dance and Theater: Looking at Television's Deployment of Theatricality Through Dance 10. Susan Leigh Foster, Why Not 'Improv Everywhere'? Section III: Genus (part 2) 11. Royd Climenhaga, A Theater of Bodily Presence: Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal 12. Praise Zenenga, The Total Theater Aesthetic Paradigm in African Theater 13. Jane Baldwin, Jean Gascon's Theatricalist Approach to Molière and Shakespeare 14. Marianne McDonald, Dancing Drama: Ancient Greek Theatre in Modern Shoes and Shows Section IV: Historiographical Presence and Absence 15. Ketu H. Katrak, The Post Natyam Collective: Innovating Indian Dance and Theatre, Abhinaya and Multimedia 16. Odai Johnson, Dancing for Dionysus in the Year of Years 17. Erika T. Lin, A Witch in the Morris: Hobbyhorse Tricks and Early Modern Erotic Transformations 18. Esther Kim Lee, Designed Bodies: A Historiographical Study of Costume Design and Asian American Theatre 19. Ann Dils, Moving American History: An Examination of Works by Ken Burns and Bill T Jones Section V: Place, Space and Landscape 20. Amy Strahler Holzapfel, Landscape Between Dance and Theatre: Meredith Monk, The Wooster Group, and The TEAM 21. Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle, Colonial Theatrics in Canada: Managing Blackfoot Dance During Western Expansionism 22. Sally Ann Ness, A Slip on the Cables: Touristic Rituals and Landscape Performance in Yosemite National Park 23. Michael Morris, Orientations as Materializations: the Love Art Laboratory's Eco-Sexual Blue Wedding to the Sea Section VI: Affect, Somatics and Cognition 24. Petra Kuppers, Social Somatics and Interactive Performance: Touching Presence in Public 25. Amy Cook, Bodied Forth: A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Performance Analysis 26. Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Images of Love and Power: Butoh, Bausch, and Streb 27. Darcey Callison, Thoughts on the Discursive Imagery of Robert Lepage's Theatre Section VII: Unruly Bodies 28. Patrick Anderson, A Slender Pivot: Empathy, Public Space, and the Choreographic Imperative 29. Halifu Osumare, Conjuring Magic as Survival: Hip-Hop Theater and Dance 30. Thomas Postlewait, 'Court Wonder': The Performances of the 'Queen's Dwarf' in the Reign of Charles I 31. Krista Miranda, 'What do Women Want, My God, What do They Want?': Mimeses, Fantasy, and Female Sexuality in Ann Liv Young's Michael Section VIII: Biopolitics 32. Daphne P. Lei, Dance Your Opera, Mime Your Words: (Mis)translate the Chinese Body on the International Stage 33. E.J. Westlake, El Güegüence, post-Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Resistant Politics of Dancing 34. Jade Power Sotomayor, From Soberao to Stage: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba and the Speaking Body 35. William Givens. Lindy Hop, Community, and the Isolation of Appropriation Section IX: National Scales and Mass Movements 36. Sandy Peterson, Russian Mass Spectacle and the Bolshevik Regime 37. Marie Percy, Movement Choirs and the Nazi Olympics 38. J.L. Murdoch, Talchum: Korea's masked folk dance-drama 39. Kim Marra, Circus Echoes: Dancing the Human-Equine Relationship Under the Millennial Big Top 40. Neal Hebert, Capitol City Camp: Gay Carnival and Capitalist Display Section X: Infection 41. Miriam Felton-Dansky, Borrowed Crowds: The Living Theatre's Contagious Revolution 42. Marlis Schweitzer, The Salome Epidemic: Degeneracy, Disease, and Race Suicide 43. Virginia Anderson, Choreographing a Cause: Broadway Bares as Philathroproduction and Embodied Index to Changing Attitudes Toward HIV/AIDS 44. Michael Lueger, Dance and the Plague: Epidemic Choreomania and Artaud"

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Nadine George-Graves is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 (2000) and Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Dance Theater, Community Engagement and Working It Out (2010) as well as numerous articles on American theater and dance.

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