Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction SECTION 1: AGAINST THE GRAIN: SEXUALITY AND BALLET CRITICISM Dancing Dicks; V.A.Briginshaw Modernism, masculinity and, sexuality in Nijinsky's L'Apr s-midi d'un faune; R.Burt SECTION 2: RETHINKING TEMPORALITY: PREPOSTEROUS HISTORIES Rethinking Temporality: intertextual plays within and between discourses of space, time and performing bodies; V.A.Briginshaw & R.Chandler Fa ade, Elvis Legs, and the humorous pleasures of dancing; R.Burt Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: cosmopolitanism and energetic excess; R.Burt SECTION 3: UNCONTROLLABLE INTENSITIES 'Don't mention Busby Berkeley': a re-assessment of Lea Anderson's Yippeee ; V.A.Briginshaw & R.Burt Corporeality and materiality in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater: - notions of the Irreparable: V.A.Briginshaw SECTION 4: TWO INTERVIEWS Interview with Peter Pabst Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret) Afterword SECTION 5: INSURMOUNTABLE MEMORIES Danced testimonies of the traumas of migration; R.Burt Sensation and memory in Emilyn Claid's Remember to Forget (2003) and Gilles Deleuze's discussion of Francis Bacon's paintings; V.A.Briginshaw SECTION 6: RE-IMAGINING DANCING TOGETHER Affective Differences and Repetitions in Both Sitting Duet; V.A.Briginshaw What the dancing body can do: Spinoza and the ethics of experimental theatre dance; R.Burt Conclusion Bibliography Index