| Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality Contributor(s): Albright, Ann Cooper (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819574112 ISBN-13: 9780819574114 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - General |
| Dewey: 792.8 |
| LCCN: 2013017328 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Critical and performative writings from a well-known dance scholar Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2014) For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her engagement as both a dancer and a scholar, Albright draws on her kinesthetic sensibilities as well as her intellectual knowledge to articulate how movement creates meaning. Throughout Engaging Bodies movement and ideas lean on one another to produce a critical theory anchored in the material reality of dancing bodies. This blend of cultural theory and personal circumstance will be useful and inspiring for emerging scholars and dancers looking for a model of writing about dance that thrives on the interconnectedness of watching and doing, gesture and thought. Hardcover is un-jacketed. |