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Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or conservative, inciting pleasures that counterbalance the artform's often serious codes.
Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, the book's ten authors provide diverse observational techniques and creative vocabularies for finding, analyzing, and theorizing funny moves across dance forms, dance scenes, and dance screens. Some of the authors find hope in the laughter of their artist subjects and their audiences, and some linger in the ambiguity and confusion so created. Each essay takes on a single surprise factor or a choreographic comic rupture, relishing in the amassed effects or affects across an absurdist cinematic, staged, or quotidian sequence. What is "funny" in each case pops up as a wildcard that evokes recognizable shared experiences, sometimes pushing back against dominant or mainstream logic and its supremacist laughter.
Contents
Acknowledgments: Dance Humor in Crisis
List of Contributors
Introduction
Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron
Section One: Funny Dancing, Formally
1. "Now is the time. Come, come!": Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in Bharatanatyam
Anusha Kedhar
2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in Flamenco
Michelle Heffner Hayes
3. Insolent Tangos
Marta E. Savigliano
Section Two: She Who Laughs Last Dances
4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded Sister
Adanna K. Jones
5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film
Esha Niyogi De
Section Three: Vamping Onto White Film
6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region
Minerva Tapia
7. Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949)
Anthea Kraut
Section Four: Dancing Funny Otherwise
8. Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay Choreographies
Yutian Wong
9. Dancing Displa(y)cements: Anticolonial Humor in Al-Hakawati's DestiNations Unknown (Berlin 2020)
Hannah Schwadron
10. Transfeminine Joking on Argentina's Bailando por un Sueño
Jeffrey Tobin
Index
