Name: Writing Dancing Together By V. Briginshaw
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Writing Dancing Together by V. Briginshaw

With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.

About V. Briginshaw

VALERIEA. BRIGINSHAW is a retired Professor of Dance, Chichester University, UK. Her publications include Dance, Space and Subjectivity and chapters in Analysing Performance, Dance in the City, Preservation Politics, Performing Nature and Anarchic Dance.

RAMSAY BURT is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University, UK. His publications include The Male Dancer, Alien Bodies, and Judson Dance Theater. In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, USA. With Professor Susan Foster, he is founder editor of Discourses in Dance.

Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction SECTION 1: AGAINSTTHE GRAIN: SEXUALITYAND BALLET CRITICISM Dancing Dicks; V.A.Briginshaw Modernism, masculinity and, sexuality in Nijinsky's L'Apres-midi d'un faune ; R.Burt SECTION 2: RETHINKING TEMPORALITY: PREPOSTEROUS HISTORIES Rethinking Temporality: intertextual plays within and between discourses of space, time and performing bodies; V.A.Briginshaw & R.Chandler Facade, Elvis Legs, and the humorous pleasures of dancing; R.Burt Napoli and Palermo, Palermo : cosmopolitanism and energetic excess; R.Burt SECTION 3: UNCONTROLLABLE INTENSITIES 'Don't mention Busby Berkeley': a re-assessment of Lea Anderson's Yippeee!!! ; V.A.Briginshaw & R.Burt Corporeality and materiality in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater: - notions of the Irreparable: V.A.Briginshaw SECTION 4: TWO INTERVIEWS Interview with Peter Pabst Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret) Afterword SECTION 5: INSURMOUNTABLE MEMORIES Danced testimonies of the traumas of migration; R.Burt Sensation and memory in Emilyn Claid's Remember to Forget (2003) and Gilles Deleuze's discussion of Francis Bacon's paintings; V.A.Briginshaw SECTION 6: RE-IMAGINING DANCING TOGETHER Affective Differences and Repetitionsin Both Sitting Duet ; V.A.Briginshaw What the dancing body can do: Spinoza and the ethics of experimental theatre dance; R.Burt Conclusion Bibliography Index

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9780230535640

ISBN 10

023053564X

Title

Writing Dancing Together by V. Briginshaw

Author

V. Briginshaw

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New

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Hardback

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year published

2009-04-23

Number of pages

244

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Writing Dancing Together V. Briginshaw

Writing Dancing Together by V. Briginshaw

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