| Description |
xvii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Choreography and dance studies, 1053-380X ; v. 12 |
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Choreography and dance studies ; v. 12
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| Contents |
Bk. I. Matriarchs, Mentoring and Passing on the Heritage. Dancers Talk about Their Lives in Dance: Matriarchs, Mentoring and Passing on the Heritage / Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer. Portrait of Catherine and Dorothie Littlefield / Ann Barzel. Renate Schottelius: Dance at the Bottom of the World in Argentina / Stephanie Reinhart. Making My Way in Dance / Bella Lewitzky. African American Rhythm Tappers / Cheryl Willis. Mentors of American Jazz Dance / Judy Austin. Body Wisdom / Gay Cheney. Women in Dance in Higher Education / Linda Caruso Haviland. Fire and Ice: Female Archetypes in American Modern Dance / Sharon E. Friedler. Sexual Politics / Roger Copeland. Feminist Theory and Contemporary Dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- Bk. II. The Physical Body, Theory and Practice and Using the Knowledge. Dancers Talk about Their Issues in Dance: The Physical Body, Theory and Practice and Using the Knowledge / Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer |
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Standing in Awe, Sitting in Judgment / Julie Sandler. Dance has Many Ages / Billie Kirpich. The Body Never Lies / Carolyn McConnell. Developmental Perspective / Susan Lee. Ballet as a Way of Knowing / Marion Frank. Governance and Vision / Brenda Way. A Lion in the Laundromat / Sally Hess. Love and Power among the Critics / Wendy Perron. Sensuality and Sexuality as Dual Unity in African Dance / Kariamu Welsh Asante. Political Issues of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Artist/Activist / Susan B. Glazer. Seduction in Andalusian Flamenco / Ninotchka Bennahum. How Can the Brown, Female, Subaltern Feminist Speak? / Ananya Chatterjea. Sorceress, Imperial Concubine and Dancing Girl / Yunyu Wang |
| Summary |
Why do women choreographers choose to create the dances they do in the manner they do? How do women in dance work independently, and organizationally? How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and research by the dancers and educators Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in Dancing Female. Their exploration of the intimate and diverse world in which women create, teach, direct, perform and write is subdivided into two books. In the first they examine the ways in which women transmit their art from one generation to the next through their professional and personal relationships, raising critical questions about women choreographers, dancers, writers, educators and administrators. Chapters cover major Western theatrical dance genres: ballet, modern, jazz, tap and theatre dance. In Book II, "The Physical Body, Theory and Practice, and using the Knowledge," they consider the dancer's relationship to her art from three perspectives: her physicality, the theory and practice of dance that impact her career in psychological and spiritual terms, and finally, the cultural context in which she works. In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, the contributors strike a balance between a theoretical sense of feminism and its practice in reality. In Dancing Female Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer present answers to basic questions about women, power and action |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Choreographers.
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Modern dance.
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Women dancers.
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| Author |
Friedler, Sharon E.
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Glazer, Susan.
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| LC no. |
99526577 |
| ISBN |
9057020254 |
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9057020262 (softcover) |
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