Queer dance : meanings and makings / edited by Clare Croft.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Queer dance : meanings & makings [Cover title] |
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Contents:
- Part I: queering the stage. To be a showboy / Lou Henry Hoover ; "Our love was not enough": queering gender, cultural belonging, and desire in contemporary Abhinaya / Sandra Chatterjee and Cynthia Ling Lee ; Women dancing otherwise: the queer feminism of Gu Jiani's Right & Left / Emily E. Wilcox ; The hysterical spectator: dancing with feminists, nellies, andro-dykes, and drag queens / Doran George ; Chasing feathers: Jerome Bel, Swan Lake, and alternative futures of re-enacted dance / Julian B. Carter ; Dancing marines and pumping gasoline: coded queerness in depression-era American ballet / Jennifer L. Campbell ; Queer spaces in Anna Sokolow's Rooms / Hannah Kosstrin
- Part II: dancing toward a queer sociality. Queer dance in three acts / Thomas F. Defrantz ; In praise of Latin night at the queer club / Justin Torres ; An Buachaillín Bán: refections on one queer's performance within traditional Irish music and dance / Nicholas Gareiss ; Aunty fever: a queer impression / Kareem Khubchandani ; Last cowboy standing: testing a critical choreographic inquiry / Peter Carpenter ; RMW(a) & RMW from the inside out / Jennifer Monson
- Part III: intimacy. Futari Tomo: a queer duet for taiko / Angela K. Ahlgren ; "Oh no! Not this lesbian again": the punany poets queer the pimp-ho aesthetic / Raquel L. Monroe ; Choreographing the chronic / Patrick McKelvey ; Expressing life through loss: on queens that fall with a freak technique / Anna Martine Whitehead.