Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance
Ann Cooper Albright  
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Publisher:University Press of New England
Genre:Performing Arts, Dance, Classical & Ballet, Modern, Reference, Psychology, Personality, Physiological Psychology
Pages:216
ISBN:9780819563217
Release:1997-01-01
Dimensions:24.00 cm x 15.29 cm x 1.78 cm
Date Added:2014-02-19
Rating:5
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Summary: The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity - a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Though her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabited them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cutural representation becomes embedded in the body.