Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster

Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster

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Summary

How the human body is involved in the creation and illustration of ideas.

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Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster

". . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." —Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History . . . assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches . . . [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." —Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." —Dance Chronicle ". . . [an] important step. . . in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." —Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.
".. I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." - Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History ... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches ... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." - Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." - Dance Chronicle "... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." - Theatre Journal

SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance.

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ISBN 13 9780253209351
ISBN 10 0253209358
Title Choreographing History
Author Susan Leigh Foster
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Indiana University Press
Year published 1995-05-22
Number of pages 272
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