Full Description
This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing the Body, Staging the Other (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
Part 1: Writing the Body
Mouth Over Matter: Writing Early Tap Dance in the Margins
of the Black Body (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
Spain in the Basement: Dancing Race and Nation at the
Paris Exposition, 1900 (Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg)
White Dreadlocks: Black Aesthetics in the Work of Louise
Lecavalier and La La La Human Steps (MJ Thompson)
Flowers of Menace: Stephen Petronio's Rites of Spring Constance Valis Hill
Part 2: Transmissions and Traces
Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness and the
USA Freedom Kids (Michelle T. Summers)
Escape Routes and Roots: Rewriting the Narrative of the
Vulgar Body (A'Keitha Carey)
Lo Que Queda/That Which Remains: Dancing Bodies,
Historical Erasure and Cultural Transmission (Michelle Heffner Hayes)
Screaming Soundscapes: The Sounds of Puerto Rican Contemporary Performance in the Work of Teresa Hernández and Ivette Román
(Lydia Platón Lázaro)
Part 3: Staging the Other
Always Already: The Jewish Body as Victim and Victimizer (Rebecca K. Pappas)
Israel Galván's Aesthetic Anarchism: An Ethics Instantiated
in Motion (Ninotchka D. Bennahum)
Brown and Black: Performing Transmission in Trisha Brown's Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi's Kamaitachi (Michael Sakamoto and Christopher-Rasheem McMillan)
The Bustle, the Body and Stillness: Re-Centering Modernities through the Broadway Musical (Gwyneth Shanks)
Gradations of Presence: Armida in Nineteenth-Century
Italian Dance Librettos (Melissa Melpignano)
Choreogrammatics: About the Cover of This Book (Linda Carreiro)
About the Contributors
Index
