 Yes? No! Maybe... seductive ambiguity in dance.
Author: Claid, Emilyn Published: 2006 A book about performing and watching dance. Using a unique combination of historical, academic and autobiographical voices, it covers 50 years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn in the 1950s to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun, Nigel Charnock, Lloyd Newson, Javier de Frutos, and Fin Walker. Emilyn Claid's thought-provoking investigation of performing presence is illuminated by episodes from her own histroy as founder member of X6 Dance Space, the experimental dance collective, and as one of the UK's most radical and exciting performers. Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge, she looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance, exploring the shifting dynamic between performer and spectator through feminist, psychoanalytic, post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. |
