{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-dance-and-theater-paperback","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNadine George-Graves\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater\u003c\/em\u003e collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, \u003cbr\u003eCaroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar\/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNadine George-Graves\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAmerican Theater, 1900-1940\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eUrban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Dance Theater, Community Engagement and Working It Out\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) as well as numerous articles on American theater and dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1056\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 9.6 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255610531942,"sku":"9780190698072","price":129.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dUNJVXhqWWF2TUJjendiQk1lQ2UrUT09.webp?v=1773669085","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-dance-and-theater-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}