Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance

by Susan Leigh Foster

Book Overview

Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize

Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520063333
• ISBN13: 9780520063334
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 8.2"