Reading Dancing by Susan Leigh Foster

Reading Dancing by Susan Leigh Foster

Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Foster outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance.

"Susan Foster is a new breed of dancer and choreographer" * New York Times *
"Foster proposes a context from which the reader might make, see, or write about dance." * CHOICE *
"No other dance book had posited an alternative aesthetic and historical framework beyond its own disciplinary content. In advance of the turn to the body in social theory, dance therefore became a major contributor to the rethinking of history advanced by new historicists, and an art form that could be "read" within the context of history and politics. . . . Although dance studies is a growing field for undergraduate studies, its critical status depends on texts such as Reading Dancing that can be debated more widely." * Times Higher Education *

Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is the author of numerous books and essays and editor of several anthologies on dance and the body. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website http: //danceworkbook.pcah.us/susan-foster/index.html.

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ISBN 13	9780520063334
ISBN 10	0520063333
Titel	Reading Dancing
Autor	Susan Leigh Foster
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1988-04-22
Seitenanzahl	336
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