Dance Studies / Cultural Studies

0-920159-69-9 

$18.95 CDN / $15.95 US

6 x 9 - 240 pages - paper

BISAC: PER003000 -  SOC022000

Edited by: Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn

* Editors awarded the Gertrude Lippincott Award for best article on dance in 2000 from the Society of Dance History Scholars

Order this book from The Banff Centre

Contributors to this book

"Dancing Bodies, Living Histories stages a set of illuminating connections between cultural theory and dancing practices, examining the body in an exhilarating range of performances."
- Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, University of California

The Banff Centre Press is pleased to congratulate Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle for winning the fourth annual Gertrude Lippincott award (presented by The Society of Dance History Scholars) for best article on dance published in 2000: "Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: a Post-colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s" (Dancing Bodies, Living Histories, 2000) The awards committee was impressed by the essay's nuanced historical approach. They say its balance between critique and contextualized analysis led to an impressive application of a postcolonial perspective to Canadian dancers.

From Susan Leigh Foster, University of California:
“Dancing Bodies, Living Histories stages a set of illuminating connections between cultural theory and dancing practices, examining the body in an exhilarating range of performances. The volume interrogates choreography as a theorizing of identity, racial, gendered, and classed, and it elucidates power relations within and surrounding dancing.

This volume reflects wonderfully the region in which it is published with notable essays on the Aboriginal Dance Program at The Banff Centre and on dance in the province of Alberta as situated with respect to the rest of Canada.

It also addresses an international readership in dance studies and histories of the body, bringing a diverse group of scholars and artists together to think through crucial aspects of dance’s significance”

Dancing Bodies, Living Histories highlights significant new directions in dance studios, showing how dance leaps across disciplinary boundaries and divisions between the academe and cultural practice. Touching upon history, cultural studies, film, and queer studies, Dancing Bodies links dance to other studies in the humanities and social sciences.

Return to Top of Page | Return to Cultural Studies Listing

Return to Top of Page | Return to Cultural Studies Listing