Meaning in Motion

New Cultural Studies of Dance

By: Jane C. Desmond (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 April 1997

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Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions. In Meaning in Motion, Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies, and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site.
Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or class? How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to the experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to a new field of study, Meaning in Motion broadens the scope of dance analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation.

Contributors. Ann Cooper Albright, Evan Alderson, Norman Bryson, Cynthia Cohen Bull, Ann Daly, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Susan Foster, Mark Franko, Marianne Goldberg, Amy Koritz, Susan Kozel, Susan Manning, Randy Martin, Angela McRobbie, Kate Ramsey, Anna Scott, Janet Wolff

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"Excellent! Meaning in Motion will make it much easier for scholars concerned primarily with cultural studies to consider the challenges dance poses in rethinking the body." Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Dance and Cultural Studies
Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies	p. 29
Cultural Studies and Dance History	p. 55
Social Lives, Social Bodies
Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics	p. 81
"The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch	p. 101
Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference	p. 111
Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2	p. 121
Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vision of Salome	p. 133
The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance	p. 153
Some Thoughts on Choreographing History	p. 167
Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance	p. 179
Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement	p. 207
Expanding Agendas for Critical Thinking
Dancing Bodies	p. 235
Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It	p. 259
Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures	p. 269
Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath	p. 289
Homogenized Ballerinas	p. 305
Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation	p. 321
Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti	p. 345
Notes on Contributors	p. 379
Permissions	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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