Dance on Its Own Terms

Melanie Bales is Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University and author of The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training (Illinois, 2007). Karen Eliot is also Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University and author of Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham (Illinois, 2007)

INTRODUCTION ; SECTION ONE: In the moment of re-creation and performance ; Section One Introduction ; Chapter 1: "Dancing the Canon in Wartime: Sergeyev, de Valois, and Inglesby and the Classics of British Ballet," Karen Eliot ; Chapter 2: "Reimagining Le Boeuf sur le Toit," Ann Dils ; Chapter 3: "Reframing the Recent Past: Issues of Reconstruction in Israeli Contemporary Dance," Deborah Friedes Galili ; Chapter 4: "The Body Censored: Dance, Morality and the Production Code during the Golden Age of the Film Musical," Betsy Cooper ; Chapter 5: "'Single Ladies' is Gay: Queer Performances and Mediated Masculinities on YouTube," Harmony Bench ; SECTION TWO: Within the body and mind of the dancer and choreographer ; Section Two Introduction ; Chapter 6: "La Cosmografia del minor mondo: Recovering Dance Theory to Create Today's Baroque Practice," Catherine Turocy ; Chapter 7: "Touchstones of Tradition and Innovation: Pas de Deux by Petipa, Balanchine and Forsythe," Melanie Bales ; Chapter 8: "Pavlova and her Daughters: Genealogies of Contingent Autonomy," Carrie Gaiser Casey ; Chapter 9: "Joined-up Fragments in A Wedding Bouquet: Ashton, Berners and Stein," Geraldine Morris ; Chapter 10: "Kaddish at the Wall: The Long Life of Anna Sokolow's 'Prayer for the Dead,'" Hannah Kosstrin ; Chapter 11: "Developing the American Ballet Dancer: The Pedagogical Lineage of Rochelle Zide-Booth," Jessica Zeller ; SECTION THREE: In the shape of written records ; Section Three Introduction ; Chapter 12: "Recording the Imperial Ballet: Anatomy and Ballet in Stepanov's Notation," Sheila Marion ; Chapter 13: "Musical Expression in the Bournonville-Lovenskjold La Sylphide Variation," Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir ; Chapter 14: "Archives of Embodiment: Visual Culture and the Practice of Score Reading," Victoria Watts ; Chapter 15: "Reading Music, Gesture, and Dualism in Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas," Rachael Riggs-Leyva ; Chapter 16: "What's in a Dance? The Complexity of Information in Writings about Dance," Candace Feck ; CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEX