Title Border crossings : dance and boundaries in society, politics, gender, education and technology : proceedings, Society of Dance History Scholars : joint conference with the Association for Dance in Universities and Colleges in Canada : Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10-14 May 1995 / [Linda J. Tomko, compiler]

Published Riverside, Calif. : Society of Dance History Scholars, 1995

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	792.8 Soc/Pot	1995	AVAILABLE

Description iii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Contents 27. A workshop on the mecanisme and ethetique of nineteenth-century ballet technique from the manuscripts of Adice -- 28. Body and mind: the yoga roots of Martha Graham's "contraction" and "Release" -- 29. Dancing across the border: Nona Schurman's search for modern dance -- 30. Tudor in Canada; the wizard in a new land -- 31. Establishing contacts between east and west Europe -- 32. Gone with the wall -- 33. Gender, motherland and dance -- 34. Dance in the Spanish press. The ghost of Edgar Neville -- 35. Dalcrozism in Catalonia as a bridge between the past and present of contemporary dance history -- 36. The tale of the tin soldier -- 37. "... And Spain" -- 38. Cross-cultural dance education: diminishing boundaries -- 39. Whose gaze is it anyway? -- 40. Program Contents : 1. Who is the person in the teacher of dance? -- 2. Dance in the Liberal Arts College: fostering standards in non-professional settings -- 3. From the garden to the ball-room: principles of design in Renaissance Italy -- 4. Canadian nationalism and dance: three National Film Board of Canada dance films -- 5. Crossing the Rubicon waters: myth and identity in Montreal's new dance -- 6. Dance science: advancing dance training -- 7. Dance, space, architecture: the making of the golden zone -- 8. Building bridges with the language of dance -- 9. The contredanse, that musical plague -- 10. Natural and supernatural boundaries: transcendence through dance in North India -- 11. When cultures collide: interculturalism in the work of Kai Tai Chan -- 12. The ceremonial danse a deux; crossing class boundaries in 16th- and 17th- century France -- 13. French theatrical dance in the late eighteenth century: gypises, cloggers, and drunken soldiers -- 14. A chaste seducation: women and social dance in eighteenth-century England -- 15. Patrolling the borders: the dance text as exclusion -- 16. Blurred boundaries: androgyny and gender in the dance of Uday Shankar -- 17. Humor and gender-bending in the Joe Goode performance group -- 18. Crossing boundaries, or tracing French roots of Metis dance in the upper midwest -- 19. Liminality in contra dance -- 20. Blood/spirit: whose multiculturalism? The South Asian context -- 21. Sparshott's dance perspective -- 22. Comment on "How can I know what dancing is?" -- 23. Empires, egalitarianism, and the international dance academy -- 24. Response to commentators -- 25. Contemporary dance performance: students as audience -- 26. The child as work of art; blending art and academics in the curriculum through the Arts/Bruce connection -- Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Dance -- Anthropological aspects. Dance -- Cross-cultural studies. Dance -- History -- Congresses. Dance -- Research -- Congresses. Dance -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Tomko, Linda J. Association for Dance in Universities and Colleges in Canada.

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