Dance Discourses

Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera Part 1: keyword: POLITICS topic: AUSDRUCKSTANZ 1.1 Dance and the political: States of exception Mark Franko 1.2 Fritz Bohme (1881-1952). Archeology of an ideologue Laure Guilbert 1.3 Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic Susan Manning 1.4 Ausdruckstanz on the left and the work of Jean Weidt Yvonne Hardt 1.5 Ausdruckstanz: traditions, translations, transmissions Susanne Fanco Part 2: keyword: FEMININE. MASCULINE topic: THEATRICAL DANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 2.1 Feminine. Masculine Linda Tomko 2.2 Dido's otherness: Choreographing race and gender in the ballet d'action Susan Leigh Foster 2.3 Danseuses and danseurs at the Opera de Paris (1700-25) according to the cast lists in the libretto--programs Nathalie Lecomte 2.4 A balance lost: Staging the body and controlling social mobility during the French Revolution Inge Baxmann 2.5 Gender underway. Notes for histories yet to be written Marina Nordera Part 3: keyword: IDENTITIES topic: CONTEMPORARY DANCE 3.1 Dance, identity and identification in the postcolonial world Andree Grau 3.2 Resistant identities: Anderson and Ruckert Ramsay Burt 3.3 Donald Byrd: Re/making beauty Thomas deFrantz 3.4 Dispositif trouble: When what is said is not what is shown Helene Marquie 3.5 Identity, the contemporary, and the dancers Isabelle Ginot Name index