Dance, Space and Subjectivity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 1-23

3. Constructions of Space and Subjectivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Travel Metaphors in Dance — Gendered Constructions of Travel, Spaces and Subjects

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 27-42

   3. Transforming City Spaces and Subjects

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 43-58

   4. Coastal Constructions in Lea Anderson’s Out on the Windy Beach

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 59-74

4. Dancing in the ‘In-Between Spaces’

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Desire Spatialized Differently in Dances that can be Read as Lesbian

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 77-96

   3. Hybridity and Nomadic Subjectivity in Shobana Jeyasingh’s Duets with Automobiles

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 97-111

   4. Crossing the (black) Atlantic: Spatial and Temporal Displacements in Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island and Jonzi D’s Aeroplane Man

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 112-135

5. Inside/Outside Bodies and Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Fleshy Corporealities in Trisha Brown’s if You Couldn’t See Me, Lea Anderson’s Joan and Yolande Snaith’s Blind Faith

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 139-161

   3. ‘Carnivalesque’ Subversions in Mark Morris’ Dogtown, Liz Aggiss’ Grotesque Dancer and Emilyn Claid’s Across Your Heart

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 162-182

   4. Architectural Spaces in the Choreography of William Forsythe and De Keersmaeker’s Rosas Danst Rosas

      • Valerie A. Briginshaw

      Pages 183-206

6. Back Matter

   Pages 207-234

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This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. By focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body-space interfaces and 'in-between spaces', the dances and dance films are read 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual able-bodied, male norm.

• city
• Coast
• dance
• dancing
• Europe
• feminism
• town

'Dance, Space and Subjectivity is...a very welcome publication in that Valerie Briginshaw here has the scope to investigate her complex themes through ten chpaters on interconnected issues...An impressive variety of themes and issues is explored...Briginshaw's writing style is clear and will be accessible to students as well as researchers in a variety of disciplines...The book brings dance into the arena of so many current, fascinating debates that it offers a very useful point of reference and contribution to the field.' - Anna Pakes, Dance Theatre Journal

'...presents a fast introduction to a whole range of current theoretical approaches to space, subjectivity and the representation of bodies, and shows how these theories enable explorations of the construction of subjectivity...' - Maaike Bleeker, University of Amsterdam and School for New Dance Development, The Netherlands; Research in Dance Education

• University of Chichester, UK

  Valerie A. Briginshaw

VALERIE A. BRIGINSHAW, formerly Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Chichester, UK, includes among her publications co-authorship of Dance Analysis (1987) and Writing Dancing Together (2009).

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