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Decentring Dancing Texts

The Challenge of Interpreting Dances

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  • © 2008

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  1. Janet Lansdale

    1. University of Surrey, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Intertextual Narratives in Dance Analysis

    • Janet Lansdale
    Pages 1-20

  3. Betraying History? An Historiographic Analysis of The Judas Tree (1992)

    • Alexandra Carter
    Pages 21-37

  4. Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Classicism: Shobana Jeyasingh’s Choreography and the Bharata Natyam ‘Tradition’

    • Janet O’Shea
    Pages 38-54

  5. Akram Khan’s ma (2004): An Essay in Hybridisation and Productive Ambiguity

    • Lorna Sanders
    Pages 55-72

  6. Elusive Narratives: Mats Ek

    • Giannandrea Poesio
    Pages 73-88

  7. On the Premises of French Contemporary Dance: Concepts, Collectivity and ‘Trojan Horses’ in the Work of Jérôme Bel and Loïc Touzé

    • Toni D’Amelio
    Pages 89-106

  8. Chasing Voices: Ian Spink’s Dancing Fugue (1988)

    • Janet Lansdale
    Pages 107-124

  9. Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s Both Sitting Duet (2002): A Discursive Choreomusical Collaboration

    • Daniela Perazzo Domm
    Pages 125-142

  10. Lea Anderson, Dancing and Drawing the Past into the Present

    • Henia Rottenberg
    Pages 143-159

  11. Mad Hot Ballroom and the Politics of Transformation

    • Sherril Dodds
    Pages 160-176

  12. Mapping the Multifarious: the Genrification of Dance Music Club Cultures

    • Joanna Louise Hall
    Pages 177-193

  13. Harpies and Pyjamas: the Making of Heart Thief (2003)

    • Deveril
    Pages 194-213

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 214-216
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About this book

Eleven authors analyse recent dance practices in the theatre, in club culture and on film, addressing dance in interdisciplinary relationship with music, painting and play texts. This text attempts to fill a gap with an up-to-date account of exciting and challenging new work, illuminated by fascinating new theoretical frameworks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Surrey, UK

    Janet Lansdale

About the editor

TONI D'AMELIO, lecturer, London Metropolitan University, UK. ALEXANDRA CARTER is Professor in Dance Studies, Middlesex University, UK. DEVERIL is an editor, director and writer, and teaches children how to make films. SHERRIL DODDS is Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey, UK. JOANNA LOUISE HALL is Senior Lecturer, Royal Academy of Dance, UK. JANET O'SHEA is Reader in Dance Studies, Middlesex University, UK. DANIELA PERAZZO DOMM is studying for a PhD in Dance Studies, University of Surrey, UK, and lectures in Arts and Society and Critical Theory and Analysis. GIANNANDREA POESIO is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies and Performing Arts, London Metropolitan University, UK. HENIA ROTTENBERG, lecturer on dance history and the relationships between dance and the arts, Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. LORNA SANDERS is Research Assistant on a cross-college interdisciplinary research group on issues of embodiment based at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

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