Jennifer Atkins Sally R. Sommer Tricia Henry Young
"Unpredictable. Counterintuitive. Stunningly conceived. So you think you know dance history? These anthologies are full of revelations."--Mindy Aloff, editor of Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World "This is a picture of American dance--and a picture of America through dance--as we have not conceived of it before, advancing the bold and capacious idea that movement can illuminate who Americans are and who they want to be. A startlingly original compilation that includes stops in the unlikeliest places, it makes the case that following the moving body into every byway of life reveals an America...
"Unpredictable. Counterintuitive. Stunningly conceived. So you think you know dance history? These anthologies are full of revelations."--Mindy Aloff,...
Jennifer Atkins Sally R. Sommer Tricia Henry Young
The two volumes of Perspectives on American Dance are the first anthologies in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. They show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships. Essays in these collections address rarely-studied topics in American dance and offer unexpected perspectives on commonly studied dance forms.
The first volume, The Twentieth Century, explores a variety of...
The two volumes of Perspectives on American Dance are the first anthologies in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practi...
Jennifer Jennife Sally R. Sommer Tricia Henry Young
The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume and its companion show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships.
The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume and...
