Theatre and Dance

ISBN-13: 9781137605740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str.

Kate Elswit

Opis

Exploring the intersections and divisions between theatre and dance, this concise and engaging text makes a compelling case for the significance of resisting genre distinctions in the arts, by demonstrating how analysing the relationship between the two disciplines expands our understanding of and ability to make performance.

Spis treści

“Theatre,” “&,” “Dance”.- Interlude: Participatory Theatre Does Dance Marathons.- Interconnected Histories.- Interlude: Verbatim Theatre Does Bharatanatyam.- Expanding Forms.- Interlude: Dance History Does Greek Tragic Drama.- Overlapping Methods.- Interlude: Downtown Dance Does Musical Theatre.- Conclusion.- Outrolude: European Dance Theatre does European Vernacular Dance and Theatre

O autorze

Kate Elswit is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK, and author of Watching Weimar Dance (2014). She has won four major awards for scholarly publications―the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize from the Congress on Research in Dance, the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Society of Dance History Scholars, the Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research, and honorable mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize.