Corporealities

Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power

Susan Foster

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Routledge
16 November 1995

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Dance; Pageants, parades, festivals; Anthropology

This collection of essays explores the study of

bodily reality - not as a natural or given, but as a substantial, vital constituent of cultural experience. Contributors look at bodies engaged in practices as varied as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, and social and theatrical dance. They succeed in bringing these bodies to life with all the political, gendered, racial and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is capable. 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 movement into words and choreography into theory. These are groundbreaking essays that work to resurrect bodies in all their cultural significance. They move bodies across disciplinary boundaries, and

encourage a rethinking of knowledge categories by illuminating the body's role in the production of narrative, the construction of collectivity, and the articulation of the unconcious. Corporealities is an important and exciting development in dance studies. 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. Contributors: Susan Leigh Foster; Mark Franko; Heidi Gilpin; Lena Hammergren; Randy Martin; Sally Ness; Peggy Phelan; Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter; Marta Elena Savigliano; Linda Tomko

Edited by: Susan Foster
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780415121385
ISBN 10: 0415121388
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 16 November 1995
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susan Foster