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This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
Acknowledgements p. x Introduction p. 1 Cultural Bodies The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project p. 9 Introduction p. 9 Before the body project p. 13 The body as symbol p. 18 Non-verbal communication p. 25 The Body in Culture: The Body Project p. 34 Introduction p. 34 Bodies of difference p. 34 Bodies of discourse p. 39 Technologies of power p. 44 'Get undressed--but be slim, good-looking and tanned!' p. 51 Transcending the body/mind dualism? p. 58 Ethnography Dances Back p. 64 Introduction p. 64 Varieties of ethnography p. 64 Postmodernism and feminism: 'the awkward relation' p. 67 The researcher as object p. 75 Dance ethnography as a situated reflexive bodily practice p. 77 Dance, the Body and Cultural Theory The Body in Dance p. 91 Introduction p. 91 'The sensible and the intelligible' p. 93 The celebration of the visual in ballet p. 95 The sense of touch in contact improvisation p. 102 Bodily sensing in ballet and contact improvisation p. 108 Technical shifts and aesthetic transformations p. 110 Water Study--then and now p. 113 Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity? p. 121 Introduction p. 121 The real thing? p. 122 Reconstruction in context p. 123 Varieties of musical authenticity p. 125 Dance as it was p. 129 Dance as it is/dance as it was p. 134 Dance as it is p. 139 'Performance museums' and lived traditions p. 142 Dance and Difference: Performing/Representing/Rewriting the Body p. 146 Introduction p. 146 Exoticism, eroticism and auto-eroticism p. 146 Representations of women in western theatrical dance p. 158 Dance and body politics p. 165 Dancing bodies/subjects-in-process p. 167 Dance as a metaphor for 'writing the body' p. 173 Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture p. 177 Introduction p. 177 The 1950s dance hall experience and the 1990s club experience compared p. 180 From acid house to rave culture p. 184 Dance culture, youth culture and subculture p. 193 From subcultures to club cultures p. 204 Conclusion p. 213 Notes p. 217 References p. 229 Name Index p. 255 Subject index p. 260