No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1996 Susan Leigh Foster Individual chapters © individual contributors Text design by Secondary Modern All rights reserved. Susan Leigh Foster is Professor of Dance at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of Reading Dancing (1986).įirst published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. As a bridge to other disciplines that have neglected dance for too long, it demands to be read by all who have an interest in cultural studies, gender or performance. Corporealities is an important and exciting development in dance studies. They move bodies across disci plinary boundaries, and encourage the rethinking of knowledge categories by illuminating the body’s role in the production of narrative, the construction of collectivity, and the articulation of the unconscious. These are groundbreaking essays that work to resurrect bodies in all their cultural significance. Dance is used in this volume as a theoretical framework to assist the reader in understanding the body’s permanent transience, and in the task of transposing its movements into words and its choreography into theory. They succeed in bringing these bodies to life with all the political, gendered, racial, and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is capable. The contributors look at bodies engaged in practices as varied as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, and social and theatrical dance. “This forward-looking collection of essays…breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between moving bodies and cultural meanings.” Joseph Roach, Tulane University. DANCING KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND POWER “A tour de force…Foster has collected sparkling, interesting, individual essays on topics ranging from tango to the history of hysteria and puts them in play with each other to create a substantial and provocative discourse.” Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Davis.
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