Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Intertextual Narratives in Dance Analysis....Pages 1-20
Betraying History? An Historiographic Analysis of The Judas Tree (1992)....Pages 21-37
Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Classicism: Shobana Jeyasingh’s Choreography and the Bharata Natyam ‘Tradition’....Pages 38-54
Akram Khan’s ma (2004): An Essay in Hybridisation and Productive Ambiguity....Pages 55-72
Elusive Narratives: Mats Ek....Pages 73-88
On the Premises of French Contemporary Dance: Concepts, Collectivity and ‘Trojan Horses’ in the Work of Jérôme Bel and Loïc Touzé....Pages 89-106
Chasing Voices: Ian Spink’s Dancing Fugue (1988)....Pages 107-124
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s Both Sitting Duet (2002): A Discursive Choreomusical Collaboration....Pages 125-142
Lea Anderson, Dancing and Drawing the Past into the Present....Pages 143-159
Mad Hot Ballroom and the Politics of Transformation....Pages 160-176
Mapping the Multifarious: the Genrification of Dance Music Club Cultures....Pages 177-193
Harpies and Pyjamas: the Making of Heart Thief (2003)....Pages 194-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-216