Description
In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at DanceSherril Dodds PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and ValueNadine George-Graves2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition StageKaren Schupp3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern EnglandEmily Winerock4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance FundingSarah Wilbur5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in FlamencoKathy MilazzoPART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition Frame6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old MenRuth Hellier-Tinoco7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew CompetitionsLaura Robinson8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the OireachtasCatherine E. Foley9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap PracticeSally Crawford-Shepherd PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of FemininityCelena Monteiro11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance FestivalsLiz Mellish12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary DanceNalina Wait and Erin Brannigan13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato MundialJuliet McMains14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in IndiaPallabi ChakravortyPART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque MovementKaitlyn Regehr16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision MakingJeremy Carter-Gordon17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective IntensificationElena Benthaus18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International CompetitionsMary Fogarty19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet StageRowan McLellandPART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to WinYutian Wong21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop BattleSherril Dodds22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial ArtsJanet O'Shea23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable CompetitionMelissa Blanco BorelliPART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga IntensivesMeghan Quinlan25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side StoryYing Zhu and Daniel Belgrad26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second LineRachel Carrico27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North AmericaApril F. MastenAfterword: Who is Competing?Susan Leigh Foster
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