Dancing Bodies

Abstract

Embodying difference : issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- Cultural studies and dance history / Norman Bryson -- Reinstating corporeality : feminism and body politics / Janet Wolff -- "The story is told as a history of the body" : strategies of mimesis in the work of Irigaray and Bausch / Susan Kozel -- Classical ballet : a discourse of difference / Ann Daly -- Ballet as ideology : Giselle, Act 2 / Evan Alderson -- Dancing the Orient for England : Maud Allan's The vision of Salome / Amy Koritz -- The female dancer and the male gaze : feminist critiques of early modern dance / Susan Manning -- Some thoughts on choreographing history / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Auto-body stories : Blondell Cummings and autobiography in dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- Dance naratives and fantasies of achievement / Angela McRobbie -- Dancing bodies / Susan Leigh Foster -- Spectacle and dancing bodies that matter : or, If it don't fit, don't force it / Anna Beatrice Scott -- Sense, meaning, and perception in three dance cultures / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- Some notes on Yvonne Rainer, modernism, politics, emotion, performance, and the aftermath / Mark Franko -- Homogenized ballerinas / Marianne Goldberg -- Dance ethnography and the limits of representation / Randy Martin -- Vodou, nationalism, and performance : the staging of folklore in mid-twentieth-century Haiti / Kate Ramsey.