Exploring contemporary analytical approaches to understanding performance traditions, Dance Discourses pedagogical structure makes it ideal for courses in performing arts and humanities.

Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera Part 1: keyword: POLITICS topic: AUSDRUCKSTANZ 1.1 Dance and the political: States of exception Mark Franko 1.2 Fritz Böhme (1881-1952). Archeology of an ideologue Laure Guilbert 1.3 Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic Susan Manning 1.4 Ausdruckstanz on the left and the work of Jean Weidt Yvonne Hardt 1.5 Ausdruckstanz: traditions, translations, transmissions Susanne Fanco Part 2: keyword: FEMININE. MASCULINE topic: THEATRICAL DANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 2.1 Feminine. Masculine Linda Tomko 2.2 Dido's otherness: Choreographing race and gender in the ballet d'action Susan Leigh Foster 2.3 Danseuses and danseurs at the Opéra de Paris (1700-25) according to the cast lists in the libretto--programs Nathalie Lecomte 2.4 A balance lost: Staging the body and controlling social mobility during the French Revolution Inge Baxmann 2.5 Gender underway. Notes for histories yet to be written Marina Nordera Part 3: keyword: IDENTITIES topic: CONTEMPORARY DANCE 3.1 Dance, identity and identification in the postcolonial world Andrée Grau 3.2 Resistant identities: Anderson and Ruckert Ramsay Burt 3.3 Donald Byrd: Re/making beauty Thomas deFrantz 3.4 Dispositif trouble: When what is said is not what is shown Hélène Marquié 3.5 Identity, the contemporary, and the dancers Isabelle Ginot Name index