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Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan
Year
2013
ISBN
0819574104, 9780819574107
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1779567 bytes)
Pages
408\409
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-07-20 15:48:30

Description

For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her engagement as both a dancer and a scholar, Albright draws on her kinesthetic sensibilities as well as her intellectual knowledge to articulate how movement creates meaning. Throughout Engaging Bodies movement and ideas lean on one another to produce a critical theory anchored in the material reality of dancing bodies. This blend of cultural theory and personal circumstance will be useful and inspiring for emerging scholars and dancers looking for a model of writing about dance that thrives on the interconnectedness of watching and doing, gesture and thought.

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