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PublisherWesleyan University Press

ISBN-100819500909

ISBN-139780819500908

eBay Product ID (ePID)10059121911

Product Key Features

Book TitleDance History(s) : Imagination As a Form of Study

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDance / History & Criticism, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation

Publication Year2024

GenrePerforming Arts, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAnnie-B Parson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight24.9 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"What emerges from the collection is a sense of dance history as invocation and list, elegy and collagewith twelve contributors, the book becomes polyphonic, singing that dance history goes here, and here, and here: to the border, the ocean, the ring shout; to Michael Jordan's slam dunk, and the Lindy Hop, and big joyous parties in working-class Latinx Chicago."--Kyle McCarthy, The Brooklyn Rail

Dewey Decimal792.8

Table Of ContentAnnie-B Parson and thomas f. defrantz: Introduction poster 45 images Andros Zins-Browne: Bring Your Folks 20 pp., no images Annie-B Parson: Dancing is Living 32 pp., 30 images Bebe Miller: This is How Dance Happens 20 pp., 12 images Eiko Otake: Letters 32 pp., 6 images Javier Stell-Fresquez: Storming With Two-Spirits 36 pp., 6 images Keith Hennessey: A History of Dancing 20 pp., no images Mariana Valencia: Dear Reader 28 pp., 8 images Maura Nguyen Donohue: Somewhen Else 36 pp., 8 images Mayfield Brooks: What Came before the Heartbreak 20 pp., 5 images Ogemdi Ude: Watch me 24 pp., 10 images Okwui Okpokwasili: Entangled 20 pp., 1 image thomas f. defrantz: The Future Histories of Black Dance 24 pp., 22 images

SynopsisA multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric perception of dance history. This book interrogates the history of dance from the subjective, poetic perspective of a choreographer. Diverse dance artists from the American dance field contribute prismatic, disruptive perspectives on how dance has unfolded over time and what dance history is. They reimagine the question: What is dance history? Twelve illustrated booklets, each written by a working choreographer, address the subject of dance history from nonacademic, subjective, poetic perspectives. The books model a way of enlarging and complicating how we view dance history by giving the authorial microphone to artists, to learn how their embodied perceptions relate to or diverge from the dominant dance canon. With contributions by mayfield brooks, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Maura Nguyen Donohue, Keith Hennessy, Bebe Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake, Annie-B Parson, Javier Stell-Fresquez, Ogemdi Ude, Mariana Valencia, and Andros Zins-Browne. Published by Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press. Produced by Big Dance Theater with the generous support of The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, Big Dance Theater's Board Designated Fund, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, and King's Fountain., reviewing a previous volume

LC Classification NumberGV1787