Bales, Melanie - Dance on Its Own Terms

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplines outside dance.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
SECTION ONE: In the moment of re-creation and performance
Section One Introduction
Chapter 1: Dancing the Canon in Wartime: Sergeyev, de Valois, and Inglesby and the Classics of British Ballet, Karen Eliot
Chapter 2: Reimagining Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Ann Dils
Chapter 3: Reframing the Recent Past: Issues of Reconstruction in Israeli Contemporary Dance, Deborah Friedes Galili
Chapter 4: The Body Censored: Dance, Morality and the Production Code during the Golden Age of the Film Musical, Betsy Cooper
Chapter 5: 'Single Ladies' is Gay: Queer Performances and Mediated Masculinities on YouTube, Harmony Bench
SECTION TWO: Within the body and mind of the dancer and choreographer
Section Two Introduction
Chapter 6: La Cosmografia del minor mondo: Recovering Dance Theory to Create Today's Baroque Practice, Catherine Turocy
Chapter 7: Touchstones of Tradition and Innovation: Pas de Deux by Petipa, Balanchine and Forsythe, Melanie Bales
Chapter 8: Pavlova and her Daughters: Genealogies of Contingent Autonomy, Carrie Gaiser Casey
Chapter 9: Joined-up Fragments in A Wedding Bouquet: Ashton, Berners and Stein, Geraldine Morris
Chapter 10: Kaddish at the Wall: The Long Life of Anna Sokolow's 'Prayer for the Dead,' Hannah Kosstrin
Chapter 11: Developing the American Ballet Dancer: The Pedagogical Lineage of Rochelle Zide-Booth, Jessica Zeller
SECTION THREE: In the shape of written records
Section Three Introduction
Chapter 12: Recording the Imperial Ballet: Anatomy and Ballet in Stepanov's Notation, Sheila Marion
Chapter 13: Musical Expression in the Bournonville-Lovenskjold La Sylphide Variation, Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir
Chapter 14: Archives of Embodiment: Visual Culture and the Practice of Score Reading, Victoria Watts
Chapter 15: Reading Music, Gesture, and Dualism in Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas, Rachael Riggs-Leyva
Chapter 16: What's in a Dance? The Complexity of Information in Writings about Dance, Candace Feck
CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
INDEX