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Claid Emilyn (Dartington College Of Arts Uk)

Claid Emilyn (Dartington College Of Arts Uk) - Yes? No! Maybe Seductive Ambiguity In Dance - Paperback

Claid Emilyn (Dartington College Of Arts Uk) - Yes? No! Maybe Seductive Ambiguity In Dance - Paperback

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Binding: Paperback
Description: Covering fifty years of British dance from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing. Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dance's legacy. She explores the shifts in performer - spectator relationships and investigates questions of subjectivity absence and presence identity gender race and desire using psychoanalytical feminist postmodern post - structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. Artists and practitioners professional performers teachers choreographers and theatre - goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.
Title: Yes? No! Maybe Seductive Ambiguity In Dance
Author(s): Claid Emilyn (Dartington College Of Arts Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415372473
Pages: 256 Pages, 15 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/1/2006
Category: Dance
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