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      Dances that Describe Themselves

      Susan Leigh Foster

      An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.

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      Choreographing History

      How the human body is involved in the creation and illustration of ideas.

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      Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire

      Susan Leigh Foster

      The first critical history of French ballet that illuminates relations of politics, spectacle, gender, and narrative.

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      Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance

      Susan Leigh Foster

      Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Foster outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical…

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      Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance

      Susan Foster

      Choreographing Empathy challenges the idea of a direct connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer, arguing that the connection is in fact influenced by ever-changing…

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      Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance

      Susan Foster

      Choreographing Empathy challenges the idea of a direct connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer, arguing that the connection is in fact influenced by ever-changing…

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      Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion

      Susan Leigh Foster (Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California - Los Angeles)

      Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with…

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      Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion

      Susan Leigh Foster (Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California - Los Angeles)

      Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with…

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      Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance

      Dealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations…

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      The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

      Doran George (UCLA)

      The Natural Body in Somatics Training looks at what happens in the dance studio as dancers learn physical skills and in doing so also assimilate aesthetic, ethical, and political values…

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      The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

      Doran George (UCLA)

      The Natural Body in Somatics Training looks at what happens in the dance studio as dancers learn physical skills and in doing so also assimilate aesthetic, ethical, and political values…

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      REPerspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present

      Deborah Hay,Kirsi Monni,Laurent Pichaud,Susan Leigh Foster,Trisha Brown

      What Pina Bausch was to the German dance scene, Deborah Hay is for the American one. Both are counted among the most influential representatives of postmodern dance. As a founding…

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