1st Edition

Moving Words Re-Writing Dance

Edited By Gay Morris Copyright 1996
360 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives and represent the debates swirling within dance. The contributors confront basic questions of definition and... Read more
List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, Part I Strategies, Analytical and Interpretive, Part II The Body and Gender, Part III Histories Reconsidered, Part IV Cultural Crossings, Index

Biography

Gay Morris is dance and art critic whose work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, including Dance Chronicle, ArtNews and Art in America. She teaches dance history at Sonoma State University, California

'Moving Words ... is an anthology that no one with a serious interst in dance will want to miss. - Lynn Garafola