Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page

193 Pages·1998·2.505 MB·English

by  Elena Alexander et al.

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fo o tn o tes
six choreographers
inscribe the page
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douglas dunn
marjorie gamso
ishmael houston-jones
kenneth king
yvonne meier
sarah skaggs
essays
f o o t n o t e s
six choreographers
inscribe the page
text and commentary
elena alexander
foreword
jill johnston
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Frontispiece: The Tomb of Antonio Rossellino
for the Cardinal of Portugal.
Photograph: Clarence Kennedy, courtesy of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
First published by G+B Arts International
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Footnotes : six choreographers inscribe the page.
(Critical voices in art, theory and culture—
ISSN 1025-9325)
1. Choreography 2. Modern Dance
3.Choreography—Philosophy
4. Modern dance—Philosophy
5. Dance criticism—Philosophy
I. Alexander, Elena, 1944—II. Dunn, Douglas
792.8'2
ISBN 978 9 0570 1082 8
contents
Introduction to the Series yii
Foreword ix Jill Johnston
Acknowledgments xiii
part one - context
Introduction 1 Elena Alexander
Context 3
(Foot)notes 13
p a r t tW O - EXEGETICAL ROMP
Exegetical Romp 25 Elena Alexander
part three - text
Introduction 43 Elena Alexander
Fm Dancing 45 Douglas Dunn
Commentary 61 Elena Alexander
Cover(t) Stories 65 Marjorie Gamso
Commentary 80 Elena Alexander
Three Texts Ishmael Houston-Jones
The Annotated End of Everything 85
Score for DEAD 95
A Dance of Identity: Notes on the 97
Politics of Dancing
Commentary 103 Elena Alexander
<vi} CONTENTS
Autobiopathy 107 Kenneth King
Commentary 125 Elena Alexander
The Shining 129 Yvonne Meier
Commentary 144 Elena Alexander
Paradise Remixed 149 Sarah Skaggs
Commentary 158 Elena Alexander
Selected Bibliography 163
Biographies 165
introduction
to the series
CRITICAL VOICES IN ART, THEORY AND
Culture is a response to the changing
perspectives that have resulted from
the continuing application of structural
and poststructural methodologies and
interpretations to the cultural sphere. From the ongoing processes of decon­
struction and reorganization of the traditional canon, new forms of speculative,
intellectual inquiry and academic practices have emerged which are premised
on the realization that insights into differing aspects of the disciplines that make
up this realm are best provided by an interdisciplinary approach that follows a
discursive rather than a dialectic model.
In recognition of these changes, and of the view that the histories and
practices that form our present circumstances are in turn transformed by the
social, economic, and political requirements of our lives, this series will publish
not only those authors who already are prominent in their field, or those who
are now emerging—but also those writers who had previously been acknowl­
edged, then passed over, only now to become relevant once more. This multi-
generational approach will give many writers an opportunity to analyze and
reevaluate the position of those thinkers who have influenced their own prac­
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