Dance history(s) : imagination as a form of study /

"Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study interrogates the history of dance from the embodied and poetic perspectives of choreographers. Authored by twelve diverse American dance artists in the form of twelve small booklets, it approaches and celebrates dance history as a subjective, artisti...

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Main Authors:	DeFrantz, Thomas (Author, Editor), Parson, Annie-B (Author, Editor, Illustrator), Brooks, Mayfield (Author), Donohue, Maura Nguyen (Author), Hennessy, Keith (Author), Miller, Bebe (Author), Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972- (Author), Otake, Eiko (Author), Stell-Frésquez, Javier (Author), Ude, Ogemdi (Author), Valencia, Mariana, 1984- (Author), Zins-Browne, Andros (Author)
Other Authors:	Silva, Sara Pereira da (Project director)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Brooklyn, New York] : Dancing Foxes Press, [copublished with] Big Dance Theater [and Wesleyan University Press], 2024.
Subjects:	Dance > History. Dance. History.
Summary:	"Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study interrogates the history of dance from the embodied and poetic perspectives of choreographers. Authored by twelve diverse American dance artists in the form of twelve small booklets, it approaches and celebrates dance history as a subjective, artistic inquiry. Written by working choreographers, the project reimagines and radicalizes our understanding of dance throughout human history. Simultaneously, it is dedicated to the power of an artist-centric view of history itself, thus placing the history of dance back into the body, where it began. Here, history occurs in vertical layers of time and space, moving dance history into the street, the football field, the yard, the screen, the memory, the womb, the sky, and the future. Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study enlarges and complicates the history of dance; it interprets history as unfixed, limitless, and prismatic"--