Susan Leigh Foster

Valuing Dance

Commodities and Gifts in Motion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780190933982
• ISBN-10: 0190933984
• Artikelnr.: 54020679

Autorenporträt

Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is the author of numerous books and essays and editor of several anthologies on dance and the body. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website http://danceworkbook.pcah.us/susan-foster/index.html.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Dance's Resource-fullness
Dance as Bringing People into Relation
Dance as Energizing
Dance as Adapting
Chapter 2 - Commodifying and Giving
Part A - Dance as Commodity
Standardizing, Spectacularizing, and Promoting
Bringing People into Relation as Constructing Interactivity
Energizing as Targeting Vitality
Adapting as Developing Transportability
Part Z - Dance as Gift
Giving, Receiving, and Reciprocating
Bringing People into Relation as Affirming Connectivity
Energizing as Embracing Irrepressibility
Adapting as Cultivating Locality
Chapter 3 - The Social Life of Dances
The Global Reach of Hip Hop
Learning to Dance in the Privately Owned Studio
On the Powwow Circuit
Chapter 4 - Why Dance?
Why Sell?
Why Give?
Who is Dancing?
Philosophies of Giving - Deborah Hay, William Forsythe, Savion Glover
Index