Writing Dancing Together

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Dancing Dicks – A Case In Point(e)......Page 16
2 Modernism, Masculinity and Sexuality in Nijinsky’s L’Après-midi d’un faune......Page 38
Introduction......Page 58
3 Rethinking Temporality: Intertextual Plays Within and Between Discourses of Space, Time and Performing Bodies......Page 60
4 Façade, Elvis Legs, and the Humorous Pleasures of Dancing......Page 79
5 Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: Cosmopolitanism and Energetic Excess......Page 95
Introduction......Page 108
6 ‘Don’t mention Busby Berkeley’: A Reassessment of Lea Anderson’s Yippeee!!!......Page 110
7 Corporeality and Materiality in Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater: Notions of the Irreparable......Page 125
Section 4 Two Interviews......Page 138
8 Interview with Peter Pabst, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2 February 2002 and Cologne, 22 February 2008......Page 140
9 Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret)......Page 156
Afterword......Page 163
Introduction......Page 164
10 Danced Testimonies of the Traumas of Migration......Page 166
11 Sensation and Memory in Emilyn Claid’s Remember to Forget (2003) and Gilles Deleuze’s Discussion of Francis Bacon’s Paintings......Page 178
Introduction......Page 194
12 Affective Differences and Repetitions in Both Sitting Duet......Page 196
13 What the Dancing Body Can Do: Spinoza and the Ethics of Experimental Theatre Dance......Page 217
Introduction......Page 230
FIRT/IFTR Position Paper – 1998......Page 231
Further reflections, 2008......Page 237
Bibliography......Page 246
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W......Page 257