Research Catalog

Title

Dance history(s) : imagination as a form of study / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson ; produced by Big Dance Theater.

Publication

• [Brooklyn, New York] : Dancing Foxes Press, 2024.
• [Middleton, CT] : distributed by Wesleyan University Press, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• DeFrantz, Thomas
• Parson, Annie-B
• Brooks, Mayfield.
• DeFrantz, Thomas.
• Donohue, Maura Nguyen.
• Hennessy, Keith.
• Miller, Bebe.
• Okpokowasili, Okwui.
• Otake, Eiko.
• Parson, Annie-B.
• Stell-Frésquez, Javier.
• Ude, Ogemdi.
• Valencia, Mariana, 1984-
• Zins-Browne, Andros.
• Big Dance Theater, issuing body.

Description

12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 20 cm +

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"--Publisher.

Subjects

• Miscellanea
• Dance > Miscellanea
• History
• Dance > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Saddle stitched bindings.

Contents

What came before the heartbreak (a fable) / Mayfield Brooks -- The future histories of black dance / Thomas F. Defranz -- Somewhen Else / Maura Nguyen Donohue -- A history of dancing / Keith Hennessy -- This is how dancing happens / Bebe Miller -- Entangled / Okwui Okpokowasili -- Letters / Eiko Otake -- Dancing is living / Annie-B Parson -- Storming with two-spirits / Javier Stell-Frésquez -- Watch me / Ogemdi Ude -- Dear reader / Mariana Valencia -- Bring your folks / Andros Zins-Browne.

Call Number

*MGR 24-3949

ISBN

• 9780819500908
• 0819500909

OCLC

1455346567

Title

Dance history(s) : imagination as a form of study / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson ; produced by Big Dance Theater.

Publisher

[Brooklyn, New York] : Dancing Foxes Press, 2024.

Distributor

[Middleton, CT] : distributed by Wesleyan University Press, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Choreographers

Added Author

DeFrantz, Thomas, editor.

Parson, Annie-B, editor.

Container of (work): Brooks, Mayfield. What came before the heartbreak (a fable)

Container of (work): DeFrantz, Thomas. Future histories of black dance.

Container of (work): Donohue, Maura Nguyen. Somewhen else.

Container of (work): Hennessy, Keith. History of dancing.

Container of (work): Miller, Bebe. This is how dancing.

Container of (work): Okpokowasili, Okwui. Entangled.

Container of (work): Otake, Eiko. Letters.

Container of (work): Parson, Annie-B. Dancing is living.

Container of (work): Stell-Frésquez, Javier. Storming with two-spirits.

Container of (work): Ude, Ogemdi. Watch.

Container of (work): Valencia, Mariana, 1984- Dear reader.

Container of (work): Zins-Browne, Andros. Bring your folks.

Big Dance Theater, issuing body.

Research Call Number

*MGR 24-3949