TY - BOOK ID - 134320 TI - Choreographing difference : the body and identity in contemporary dance. PY - 1997 SN - 0819563153 0819563218 PB - Middletown Wesleyan university press DB - UniCat KW - Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Modern dance KW - Body image. KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex in dance. KW - Danse moderne KW - Image du corps KW - Identité (Psychologie) KW - Sexualité dans la danse KW - Social aspects KW - Psychological aspects KW - Aspect social KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Body Image KW - Sex in dance KW - Social aspects. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - #SBIB:39A9 KW - #SBIB:316.7C211 KW - Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps KW - Cultuursociologie: dans KW - Identité (Psychologie) KW - Sexualité dans la danse KW - Body image KW - Sensuality in dance KW - Sexuality in dance KW - Dance KW - Interpretive dancing KW - Modern dancing KW - Personal identity KW - Personality KW - Self KW - Ego (Psychology) KW - Individuality KW - Image, Body KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Mind and body KW - Person schemas KW - Self-perception KW - Human body UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134320 AB - The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity -- a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. ER -