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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Overview; Part I The aging body in the late twentieth century: American postmodern dance, German dance, and Japanese dance; 1 The aching body in dance; 2 Yvonne Rainer's Convalescent Dance: on valuing ordinary, everyday, and unidealized bodily states in the context of the aging body in dance; 3 Dance is a metaphor of life: abstraction, ritual and utopia -- the foundations of contemporary dance; 4 The flower of old age; Part II Alternative danceability: dis/ability and Euro-American performance |
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5 The perverse satisfaction of gravity6 Dancing the non/fictional body; 7 Silent Rhythm: a reflection on the aging, changing body, and sensory impairment as a source of creativity and inspiration; 8 Bodies' borderlands: right in the middle -- dis/abilities on stage; Part III Aging and body politics in contemporary dance; 9 Somatic politics: community dance and aging dance; 10 Old, weak, and invalid: dance in inaction; 11 Dance and aging: Anna Halprin dancing Eros at the end of life; Part IV Perspectives of interweaving |
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12 Why are hands the last resort of the aging body in dance? Notes on the modernist gesture and the sublime13 Yoshito Ohno's Figures of Life; Index |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315515328 |
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1315515326 |
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