Writing Dancing Together - by V Briginshaw & Ramsay Burt (Hardcover)

About the Book

1. Dancing dicks - a case in point(e) / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- 2. Modernism, masculinity and sexuality in Nijinsky's L'Apres-midi d'un faune / Ramsay Burt -- 3. Rethinking temporality: intertextual plays within and between discourses of space, time and performing bodies / Valerie A. Briginshaw and Ruth Chandler -- 4. Facade, Elvis legs, and the humorous pleasures of dancing / Ramsay Burt -- 5. Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: cosmopolitanism and energetic excess / Ramsay Burt -- 6. 'Don't mention Busby Berkeley': a reassesment of Lea Anderson's Yippeee!!! / Valerie A. Briginshaw and Ramsay Burt -- 7. Corporeality and materiality in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater: notions of the irreparable / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- 8. Interview with Peter Pabst, Sadler's Wells, London, 2 February 2002 and Cologne, 22 February 2008 / Valerie A. Briginshaw and Ramsay Burt -- 9. Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret) / Valerie A. Briginshaw and Ramsay Burt -- 10. Danced testimonies of the traumas of migration / Ramsay Burt -- 11. Sensation and memory in Emilyn Claid's Remember to Forget (2003) and Gilles Deleuze's discussion of Francis Bacon's paintings / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- 12. Affective differences and repetitions in Both Sitting Duet / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- 13. What the dancing body can do: Spinoza and the ethics of experimental theatre dance / Ramsay Burt.

Book Synopsis

With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.

About the Author

VALERIE A. BRIGINSHAW is a retired Professor of Dance, Chichester University, UK. Her publications include Dance, Space and Subjectivity and chapters in Analysing Performance, Dance in the City, Preservation Politics, Performing Nature and Anarchic Dance.

RAMSAY BURT is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University, UK. His publications include The Male Dancer, Alien Bodies, and Judson Dance Theater. In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, USA. With Professor Susan Foster, he is founder editor of Discourses in Dance.