The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Jens Richard Giersdorf and Yutian Wong

"Second edition published by Routledge 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Methods and Approaches 2 Dance History Source MaterialsJune Layson 3 Shifting Perspectives on Dance EthnographyTheresa Jill Buckland 4 Dance Studies/Cultural StudiesGay Morris 5 Dance and Gender: Formalism and Semiotics ReconsideredStephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas 6 An Introduction to Dance AnalysisJanet Adshead-Lansdale 7 At Home in the World? The Bharatanatyam Dancer As Transnational InterpreterJanet O'Shea 8 Differentiating Phenomenology and DancePhilippa Rothfield 9 Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the re- in Dance ReenactmentMark Franko Part II: Practice and Performance 10 Grasping Practice: Reflections on Practices of Knowing and Researching in Dance EducationYvonne Hardt 11 I am a DancerMartha Graham 12 Reworking the Ballet: Stillness and Queerness in Swan Lake, 4 ActsVida Midgelow 13 Getting off the Orient ExpressShobana Jeyasingh 14 Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: The Mulata Performances of Ninon SevillaMelissa Blanco Borelli 15 Cabbages and Kings: Disability, Dance, and Some Timely ConsiderationsAdam Benjamin 16 Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEMDanielle Goldman 17 Staging Choreomusical ResearchStephanie Schroedter 18 Working Out Contemporaneity: Dance and Post-FordismBojana Kunst Part III: Dance as Embodied Ideology 19 In Pursuit of the Sylph: Ballet in the Romantic PeriodDeborah Jowitt 20 Nijinsky: Modernism and Heterodox Representations of Masculinity Ramsay Burt 21 From Interculturalism to Historicism: Reflections on Classical Indian Dance (2000/1)Pallabi Chakravorty 22 Race in Motion: Modern Dance, Negro Dance, and Katherine Dunham Susan Manning 23 Have They a Right?: Nineteenth-Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy Jacqueline Shea Murphy 24 Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth Toni Shapiro-Phim 25 Choreographing a Flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's Changing Identity Yatin Lin 26 Dancing Salsa Wrong in Los Angeles Cindy Garcia 27 Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon and Living in a Great Big Way Nadine George-Graves Part IV: Dance on the Market and in the Media 28 Beyonce, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Choreographic Propert yAnthea Kraut 29 "Selling Out" Post-Mao: Dance, Labor, and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China Emily Wilcox 30 So You Think You are Masculine? Dance Reality Television, Spectatorship, and Gender Nonconformity Mark Broomfield 31 Wii Will Become Silhouettes . . .Derek A. Burrill 32 "Complex Temporalities": Digitality and Ephemeral Tense in Adam H. Weinert's "The Reaccession of Ted Shawn"Harmony Bench Part V: Formations of the Field 33 Choreographing History Susan Foster 34 Worlding Dance and Dancing out There in the World Marta Elena Savigliano 35 Slam dancing with the Boundaries of Theory and Practice: The Legitimization of Popular Dance Sherril Dodds 36 "This must be one of these performances where science meets the arts": Lecture Performance as Contemporary Dance Maaike Bleeker 37 Dance Studies in the International Academy: Genealogy of a Disciplinary Formations Richard Giersdorf