 How to make dances in an epidemic: tracking choreography in the age of AIDS.
Author: Gere, David Published: 2004 David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers here the first book to examine in depth the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. He expands the definition of choreography to analyse not only theatrical dances but also the protests conceived by ACT-UP and the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which dance, protest, and wrenching emotional expression have become essentially indistinguishable. Gere provides a gripping portrait of gay male choreographers struggling to cope with AIDS and its meanings. |
