This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows; from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Plates - Preface - Notes on Contributors - PART 1: DANCE IN THE CITY/THE CITY IN DANCE - Dancing around Meaning (and the Meaning around Dance); A. Ward - Exer(or)cising Power: Black Bodies in the Black Public Sphere; P. Gilroy - 'Keep your Great City Paris!': the Lament of the Empress and other Women; V. A. Briginshaw - The Beat Goes On: Trance, Dance and Tribalism in Rave Culture; G. Gore - Dirt, Noise, Traffic: Contemporary Indian Dance in the Western City: Modernity, Ethnicity and Hybridity; S. Roy - PART 2: STEPPING OUT - Ballroom Blitz; H. Thomas & N. Miller - Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine; M. Pini - Madame Smudge, some Fossils, and other Missing Links: Unearthing the Ballet Class; L-A. Sayers - Safe Sets: Women, Dance, and 'Communitas'; B. O'Connor - PART 3: BORDER COUNTRY - Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug; L. Back - Aerobic Dance and the City: Individual and Social Space; S. Prickett - Dance and Erotica: The Construction of the Female Stripper; S. Dodds - Let's Face the Music - and Dance? : Torvill and Dean: 'Champagne on Ice'; S. Jordan & H. Thomas - Index
