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Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality
Ann Cooper Albright
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For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her engagement as both a dancer and a scholar, Albright draws on her kinesthetic sensibilities as well as her intellectual knowledge to articulate how movement creates meaning. Throughout Engaging Bodies movement and ideas lean on one another to produce a critical theory anchored in the material reality of dancing bodies. This blend of cultural theory and personal circumstance will be useful and inspiring for emerging scholars and dancers looking for a model of writing about dance that thrives on the interconnectedness of watching and doing, gesture and thought.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: Situated Dancing
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I Performance Writings
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1 Pooh Kaye and Eccentric Motions
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2 Johanna Boyce
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3 Improvisations by Simone Forti and Pooh Kaye
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4 Song of Lawino
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5 Joseph Holmes, Sizzle and Heat
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6 Performing across Identity
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7 In Dialogue with Firebird
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8 Dancing Bodies and the Stories They Tell
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9 Embodying History: The New Epic Dance
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10 Desire and Control: Performing Bodies in the Age of AIDS
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II Feminist Theories
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11 Mining the Dancefield: Spectacle, Moving Subjects, and Feminist Theory
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12 Writing the Moving Body: Nancy Stark Smith and the Hieroglyphs
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13 Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance
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14 Femininity with a Vengeance: Strategies of Veiling and Unveiling in Loïe Fuller’s Performances of Salomé
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III Dancing Histories
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15 The Long Afternoon of a Faun: Reconstructions and Discourses of Desire
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16 Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African-American Dance
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17 Matters of Tact: Writing History from the Inside Out
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18 The Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient Greece
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IV Contact Improvisation
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19 A Particular History: Contact Improvisation at Oberlin College
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20 Open Bodies: (X)changes of Identity in Capoeira and Contact Improvisation
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21 Present Tense: Contact Improvisation at Twenty-five
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22 Feeling In and Out: Contact Improvisation and the Politics of Empathy
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V Pedagogy
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23 Dancing across Difference: Experience and Identity in the Classroom
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24 Channeling the Other: An Embodied Approach to Teaching across Cultures
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25 Training Bodies to Matter
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VI Occasional Pieces
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26 The Mesh in the Mess
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27 Through Yours to Mine and Back Again: Reflections on Bodies in Motion
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28 Physical Mindfulness
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29 Researching Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality
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30 Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance
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31 Dancing in and out of Africa
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32 Rates of Exchange
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33 Moving Contexts: Dance and Difference in the Twenty-first Century
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34 Three Beginnings and a Manifesto
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35 Improvisation as Radical Politics
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36 Space and Subjectivity
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37 Strategic Practices
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38 Resurrecting the Future: Body/Image/Technology
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39 Falling . . . on-screen
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40 The Tensions of Technē: On Heidegger and Screendance
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41 Falling
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Afterword
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- 978-0-8195-7412-1 (ebook)
- 978-0-8195-7411-4 (paper)