Originally published in hardcover: 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Theory that acts like dancing : the autoethnographic strut / Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn. Inventing strategies, models, and methods. Shifting positions : from the dancer's posture to the researcher's posture / Anne Cazemajou -- A template for art world dance ethnography : the Luna "nouvelle danse" event / Dena Davida -- Interview strategies for concert dance world settings / Jennifer Fisher -- The "why dance?" projects : choreographing the text and dancing the data / Michèle Moss -- What is the pointe? : the pointe shoe as symbol in dance ethnography / Kristin Harris Walsh -- Embodying autoethnographies. Writing, dancing, embodied knowing : autoethnographic research / Karen Barbour -- The body as a living archive of dance/movement : autobiographical reflections / Janet Goodridge -- Self-portrait of an insider : researching contemporary dance and culture in Vitória, Brazil / Eluza Maria Santos -- Reflections on making the dance documentary Regular events of beauty : negotiating culture in the work of choreographer Richard Tremblay / Priya Thomas -- Angelwindow : "I dance my body double" / Inka Juslin -- Examining creative processes and pedagogies. The Montréal Danse Choreographic Research and Development Workshop : dancer-researchers examine choreographer-dancer relational dynamics during the creative process / Pamela Newell and Sylvie Fortin -- How the posture of researcher-practitioner serves an understanding of choreographic activity / Joëlle Vellet -- A teacher "self-research" project : sensing differences in the teaching and learning of contemporary dance technique in New Zealand / Ralph Buck, Sylvie Fortin, and Warwick Long -- Dance education and emotions : articulating unspoken values in the everyday life of a dance school / Teija Löytönen -- Black tights and dance belts : constructing a masculine identity in a world of pink tutus in Corner Brook, Newfoundland / Candice Pike -- The construction of the body in Wilfride Piollet's classical dance classes / Nadège Tardieu and Georgiana Gore -- Revealing choreographies as cultural and spiritual practices. Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe : trance as a cultural commodity / Bridget E. Cauthery -- Anthropophagic bodies in Flea market : a study of Sheila Riberio's choreography / Mônica Dantas -- The bridge from past to present in Lin Hwai-min's Nine songs (1993) : literary texts and visual images / Yin-Ying Huang -- Revealed by fire : Lata Pada's narrative of transformation / Susan McNaughton -- Spectres of the dark : the dance-making manifesto of Latina/Chicana choreographies / Juanita Suarez -- Not of themselves : contemporary practices in American Protestant dance / Emily Wright -- Theory that acts like dancing : the autoethnographic strut / Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn.
Summary:
Contributors from Canada, France, USA, New Zealand, England, Brazil, Finland, and Taiwan examine the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture. The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations.
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