Sex, art, and audience : dance essays / Bruce E. Fleming.
By: Fleming, Bruce E. (Bruce Edward).
Material type:
BookSeries: New studies in aesthetics ; ; vol. 30.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, 2000Description: xi, 316 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0820444766; 9780820444765.Other title: Dance essays.Subject(s): Dance -- Philosophy
| Modern dance | Movement, Aesthetics of | Sex in dance | Philosophy: aesthetics | Dance | Communication studies | Theatre: technical & background skills | Theatre studiesDDC classification: 792.8 FLE
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 792.8 FLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000424360 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sex, Art, and Audience responds to and discusses issues raised by ballet, modern dance, and non-Western performances during the 1980s and 1990s. The essays examine the subject of gender and sexuality in performances, the relationship of the dance performance to its audience, and the important but puzzling fact that dance, alone amongst art forms, lacks a reproducible text. In addition, these essays consider the development of classical style in the works of modern choreographic masters such as George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Merce Cunningham. Through its five chapters, Sex , Art, and Audience develops an aesthetic stance of contextual viewing: dance is most productively seen in its place among other art forms, and the arts collectively as a constituent, if distinct, part of our lives as a whole.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- I Do Real Men Watch Dance?
- A Parade on Worden Field (p. 5)
- Do Real Men Watch Dance? (p. 11)
- Two to Tango (p. 18)
- Something for Everyone to Dislike (p. 22)
- Youth, Old Age, and Tom Cruise (p. 30)
- The Trouble with Giselle (p. 34)
- Bad Applause (p. 40)
- Hopping Mad (p. 44)
- Danspleen (p. 47)
- A Reader Writes (p. 51)
- The Reek of the Human (p. 54)
- Confessions of an Apollonian Male (p. 58)
- Yes, but IS IT ART? (p. 62)
- Docent Spiders (p. 67)
- Notes and Queries (p. 72)
- II Modern Masters
- Taylor at the American Dance Festival (p. 77)
- Toward a Theory of Taylor (p. 79)
- Keats, Taylor, and the National Gallery of Scotland (p. 87)
- FranceDanse: Oui Merci (p. 90)
- Balanchine at Opryland (p. 98)
- Guilty Pleasures (p. 100)
- Love in a Cold Climate (p. 109)
- Petipa's Prodigal Son (p. 116)
- Looking Backward (p. 121)
- Spring Triumphant (p. 125)
- Thoroughly Modernist Merce (p. 131)
- Talking Merce (p. 139)
- Open and Closed Forms (p. 145)
- III Billboards and More
- Headpieces and Codpieces (p. 151)
- Clothes Make the Piece (p. 156)
- State of Darkness (p. 160)
- In Utter Darkness (p. 161)
- An Experiment in Appalachia (p. 168)
- In Praise of "Interesting" (p. 172)
- Waiting for the Millennium (p. 175)
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee (p. 179)
- Between the Movements (p. 183)
- The Problem with Improv (p. 190)
- Blurring Boundaries (p. 196)
- Billboards and More (p. 199)
- IV Looking Out
- Critical Imperatives in World Dance (p. 209)
- Angel's Gate (p. 216)
- Ritual Resurgent (p. 219)
- Hulahula (p. 226)
- A Conversation in Conakry (p. 230)
- Cross-Culturalism Revisited (p. 233)
- V Spirit and Letter
- A Conference in Copenhagen (p. 239)
- Bournonville in His Surround (p. 247)
- Toward a Theory of Dance History (p. 256)
- Les Ballets Suedois (p. 267)
- Art and Archeology (p. 271)
- Dance Ink Photographs (p. 275)
- Writing Dancing (p. 278)
- Body Peircing (p. 281)
- Marie Antoinette and the Joffrey Ballet (p. 285)
- Text and Transmission: A Summing-Up (p. 293)
- Educating the Eye (p. 300)
- Index (p. 305)