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Before, between, and beyond: three decades of dance writing

Sally Banes, Andrea Harris, Joan Ross Acocella and Lynn Garafola
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Voice of the Zeitgeist: Sally Banes and Her Times (LYNN GARAFOLA, page vii)
  • Electrification (JOAN ACOCELLA, page xv)
  • Introduction (ANDREA HARRIS, page 3)
  • 1. Dance before Midnight: Dance Journalism, 1974-87
    • Substanceless Brutality (page 13)
    • Bizarre Newborn Universe (page 17)
    • About Quarry, about Meredith Monk (page 20)
    • Disco Dance: Boogie Down the Blues (page 23)
    • The Art of Ballezz (page 27)
    • Changing and Growing and Changing Colors (page 32)
    • Stepping into Time: Charles Cook, Jane Goldberg, and Andrea Levine (page 37)
    • David Gordon, or, the Ambiguities (page 41)
    • Merce Cunningham 101: An Introductory Course (page 47)
    • Douglas Dunn Talking Dance (page 50)
    • Patterns (page 58)
    • A Walk on the Wild Side (page 61)
    • Bolshoi Bravura (page 64)
    • Notes on Some Dances (page 73)
    • Rhythm for the Eyes, Ears, and Soles (page 77)
    • Awhirl in Every Port (page 81)
    • Under Glass (page 84)
    • Trisha Brown and Fujiko Nakaya Play Misty (page 86)
    • "Men Together" and Bloolips (page 91)
    • Paul Taylor Dance Company (page 97)
    • 10¢ a Dance: The Funds Over (page 104)
    • Nearly Sort of Not Dance Maybe (page 110)
    • Choreographer Steps Spryly into Television (page 113)
  • 2. Between the Arts: Interdisciplinary Writings on the Arts in Culture
    • From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs (page 119)
    • Theatre of Operations: Stuart Sherman's Fifteen Films (page 148)
    • Imagination and Play: The Films of Ericka Beckman (page 167)
    • The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet (page 186)
    • Homage, Plagiarism, Allusion, Comment Quotation: Negotiating Choreographic Appropriation (page 198)
    • Institutioning Avant-Garde Performance: A Hidden History of University Patronage in the United States (page 216)
    • Olfactory Performances (page 242)
  • 3. Beyond the Millennium: Recent Dance Writings
    • Our Hybrid Tradition (page 257)
    • The Scent of a Dance (page 269)
    • Choreographing Community: Dancing in The Kitchen (page 281)
    • "A New Kind of Beauy": From Classicism to Karole Armitage's Early Ballets (page 303)
    • TV-Dancing Women: Music Videos, Camera-Choreography, and Feminist Theory (page 325)
    • Elephants in Tutus (page 344)
  • Contributors (page 361)
  • Index (page 363)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAAC 66.3 (Summer 2008): 312-314 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40206353
Citable Link
Published: c2007
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299221539 (ebook)
  • 9780299221546 (paper)
  • 9780299221508 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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