 Rethinking dance history.
Author: Carter, Alexandra Published: 2004 From the ballets de cours of the seventeenth century to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, this fascinating selection of new writing invites the reader to revisit key moments in the history of Western theatre dance practice. By taking a fresh approach to the study of dance history in general, Alexandra Carter offers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences within that history. Among the topics covered are ballet, South Asian dance, and modern dance, and the contributors include Ramsay Burt, Alexandra Carter, Ananya Chatterjee, Judith Chazin-Bennahum, Lena Hammergren, Marion Kant, Larraine Nicholas, Chris Roebuck, Helen Thomas, and Linda Tomko. |
