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Writing Dancing Together

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  1. Valerie A. Briginshaw
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  2. Ramsay Burt
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Against the Grain: Sexuality and Ballet Criticism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Dancing Dicks — A Case In Point(e)

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw
      Pages 3-24

    3. Modernism, Masculinity and Sexuality in Nijinsky’s L’Après-midi d’un faune

      • Ramsay Burt
      Pages 25-44

  3. Rethinking Temporality: Preposterous Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Rethinking Temporality: Intertextual Plays Within and Between Discourses of Space, Time and Performing Bodies

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw, Ruth Chandler
      Pages 47-65

    3. Façade, Elvis Legs, and the Humorous Pleasures of Dancing

      • Ramsay Burt
      Pages 66-81

    4. Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: Cosmopolitanism and Energetic Excess

      • Ramsay Burt
      Pages 82-93

  5. Two Interviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Interview with Peter Pabst, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2 February 2002 and Cologne, 22 February 2008

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw, Ramsay Burt
      Pages 127-142

    3. Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret)

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw, Ramsay Burt
      Pages 143-150

  7. Reimagining Dancing Together

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Affective Differences and Repetitions in Both Sitting Duet

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw
      Pages 183-203

    3. What the Dancing Body Can Do: Spinoza and the Ethics of Experimental Theatre Dance

      • Ramsay Burt
      Pages 204-216
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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 the authors

VALERIE A. 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.

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