The Body, the Dance and the Text

Brynn Wein Shiovitz is a lecturer in the department of theatre at UCLA and dance at Chapman University in Orange County, California. Her writing about dance has appeared in Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, Theatre Survey, Jazz Perspectives and Women and Performance.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing the Body, Staging the Other (Brynn W. Shiovitz)

Part 1: Writing the Body

Mouth Over Matter: Writing Early Tap Dance in the Margins

of the Black Body (Brynn W. Shiovitz)

Spain in the Basement: Dancing Race and Nation at the

Paris Exposition, 1900 (Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg)

White Dreadlocks: Black Aesthetics in the Work of Louise

Lecavalier and La La La Human Steps (MJ Thompson)

Flowers of Menace: Stephen Petronio’s Rites of Spring Constance Valis Hill

Part 2: Transmissions and Traces

Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness and the

USA Freedom Kids (Michelle T. Summers)

Escape Routes and Roots: Rewriting the Narrative of the

Vulgar Body (A’Keitha Carey)

Lo Que Queda/That Which Remains: Dancing Bodies,

Historical Erasure and Cultural Transmission (Michelle Heffner Hayes)

Screaming Soundscapes: The Sounds of Puerto Rican Contemporary Performance in the Work of Teresa Hernández and Ivette Román

(Lydia Platón Lázaro)

Part 3: Staging the Other

Always Already: The Jewish Body as Victim and Victimizer (Rebecca K. Pappas)

Israel Galván’s Aesthetic Anarchism: An Ethics Instantiated

in Motion (Ninotchka D. Bennahum)

Brown and Black: Performing Transmission in Trisha Brown’s Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi’s Kamaitachi (Michael Sakamoto and Christopher-Rasheem McMillan)

The Bustle, the Body and Stillness: ­Re-Centering Modernities through the Broadway Musical (Gwyneth Shanks)

Gradations of Presence: Armida in ­Nineteenth-Century

Italian Dance Librettos (Melissa Melpignano)

Choreogrammatics: About the Cover of This Book (Linda Carreiro)

About the Contributors

Index