Dance and the body in Western theatre : 1948 to the present /
"The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and energy locating, dissecting, and celebrating the body in performance. While the body appears in...
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London ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Edice: | Macmillan education
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- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. The Body, Dance and Phenomenology
- 2. Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism
- 3. Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Evolution of Epic Theatre
- 4. Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999)
- 5. Resurrecting the Dancing Chorus in the 1960s: Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1964), The Living Theatre's Antigone (1967) and Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 (1969)
- 6. Dance and the 1960s Counter-Culture: Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin and Postmodern Dance
- 7. Un-Masking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz
- 8. From Decolonization to Globalization: Discourses of Freedom and Emancipation in Wole Soyinka, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
- 9. Phenomenological Encounters: Theatre, Dance and Human Rights
- Bibliography.