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203 Contributors Ramsay Burt is professor of dance history at De Montfort University, U.K. His books are The Male Dancer; Alien Bodies; Judson Dance Theater; and Writing Dancing (together with Valerie Briginshaw). Burt is founder-editor with Susan L. Foster of the series Discourses in Dance. Renée E. D’Aoust is the author of Body of a Dancer from Etruscan Press. D’Aoust was a 2008 fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism at the American Dance Festival. Her essay “Graham Crackers” was included in Robert Gottlieb’s Reading Dance. Deborah Jowitt has written a dance column for the Village Voice since 1967. Her books include Time and the Dancing Image and Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Julie Malnig is associate professor of performance in the Gallatin School of IndividualizedStudyatNewYorkUniversityandchairofGallatin’sInterdisciplinary Arts Program. She is the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance and editor of Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. Sandra Meyer is a researcher and professor at the Arts Center of the University of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is co-editor of the following books: Tubo de Ensaio: Experiências em dança e arte contemporânea (Test tube: Experiments in contemporary dance and arts); Coleção Dança Cênica I (Theater dance series I); and Seminários de dança: História em movimento—Biografias e Registros em dança (Dance seminars: History in movement—Biographies and records of dancing). Meyer is the author of A Dança cênica em Florianópolis (Theater dance in Florianópolis) and As Metáforas do corpo em cena (Metaphors of body in scene). 204 Carrie J. Preston is assistant professor of English and women’s studies at Boston University. Her book Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance traces the history of solo forms and the subjectivities they construct with case studies of Isadora Duncan and H.D. Janice Ross, professor in the Drama Department and director of the Dance Division at Stanford University, is the winner of a de la Torre Bueno Award 2008 Special Citation and author of Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance and Moving Lessons: Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education. Karl Toepfer is dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose State University, California. Among his other books and articles, his Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935 has become a fundamental text. Editor Claudia Gitelman is associate professor emerita at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey; she is a choreographer and dancer who taught worldwide. Her books are The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies , Boundaries and the Dance Canon, co-edited with Randy Martin; Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman’s Letters to Hanya Holm; and Dancing with Principle: Hanya Holm in Colorado, 1941–1983. Editor Barbara Palfy freelances as a copy editor for dance books and the journalsDance ChronicleandBallet Review,amongothers,afteracareerasalibrarianintheDanceDivisionoftheNewYorkPublicLibraryforthePerformingArts . The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprising Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University,FloridaStateUniversity,NewCollegeofFlorida,UniversityofCentral Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida. Contributors ...

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