In this Book
- Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
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.
Table of Contents
- Engaging Bodies
- p. i
- Dedication
- p. v
- Introduction: Situated Dancing
- pp. 1-17
- I. PERFORMANCE WRITINGS
- pp. 19-21
- 1. Pooh Kaye and Eccentric Motions
- pp. 22-24
- 2. Johanna Boyce
- pp. 25-26
- 4. Song of Lawino
- pp. 31-32
- 5. Joseph Holmes, Sizzle and Heat
- pp. 33-35
- 6. Performing across Identity
- pp. 36-39
- 7. In Dialogue with Firebird
- pp. 40-43
- II. FEMINIST THEORIES
- pp. 61-63
- III DANCING HISTORIES
- pp. 139-141
- IV. CONTACT IMPROVISATION
- pp. 209-211
- V. PEDAGOGY
- pp. 247-249
- 25. Training Bodies to Matter
- pp. 270-277
- VI. OCCASIONAL PIECES
- 26. The Mesh in the Mess
- pp. 281-287
- 28. Physical Mindfulness
- pp. 292-293
- 31. Dancing in and out of Africa
- pp. 318-320
- 32. Rates of Exchange
- pp. 321-324
- 34. Three Beginnings and a Manifesto
- pp. 335-337
- 35. Improvisation as Radical Politics
- pp. 338-342
- 36. Space and Subjectivity
- pp. 343-347
- 37. Strategic Practices
- pp. 348-353
- 39. Falling
- pp. 360-366
- 41. Falling
- pp. 370-377
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 381-382
- About the Author
- p. 392