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The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies The Bloomsbury Companions series is a major series of single-volume companions to key research fields in the humanities aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and libraries. Each companion offers a comprehensive reference resource giving an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. A distinctive feature of the series is that each companion provides practical guidance on advanced study and research in the field, including research methods and subject-specific resources. Forthcoming The Bloomsbury Handbook to Performance Art edited by Bertie Ferdman and Jovana Stokic ISBN 978-1-350-05757-9 The Methuen Drama Handbook to Performance and Interculturalism edited by Daphne Lei and Charlotte McIvor ISBN 978-1-350-04047-2 The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies Edited by Sherril Dodds BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2019 Copyright © Sherril Dodds and Contributors, 2019 Sherril Dodds and Contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the Authors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on pp. xiii–xiv constitute an extension of this copyright page. Series design by Eleanor Rose Cover image © Geribody/iStock All rights reserved. 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To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. For my son, Billy Dodds vi Contents List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction Sherril Dodds 1 2 Research Methods and Problems Rachel Fensham 35 Current Research and Issues 79 3 Dance Pedagogy Edward C. Warburton 81 4 Practice-as-Research Vida L. Midgelow 111 5 Dance and Politics Juan Ignacio Vallejos 145 6 Dance and Identity Prarthana Purkayastha 175 7 Dance Science Emma Redding 199 8 Screendance Harmony Bench 219 9 Dance Ethnography Yvonne Daniel 245 10 Popular Dance Sherril Dodds 275 11 Dance History Susan Manning 303 12 Dance and Philosophy Anna Pakes 327 13 Digital Dance Hetty Blades and Sarah Whatley 357 14 New Directions Mark Franko 385 15 Annotated Bibliography Elizabeth Bergman 407 16 A to Z of Key Concepts in Dance Studies Lise Uytterhoeven 421 Index 439 List of Illustrations Figures 2.1 Word cloud of dance books 57 4.1 Lost + Found [dances of exile], Carol Brown, Q Theatre, Auckland 118 4.2 Th e Fountain of Youth, Susanne Martin, Atalante Theatre in Gothenburg 126 4.3 S cratch, Jane Bacon and Vida L. Midgelow, Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, Nottingham (video still) 137 5.1 Dirección Obligatoria by Alejandro Cervera 155 5.2 Acción Iceberg Valet by Political Scene 160 5.3 Comité Cósmico de Crisis by Political Scene 164 6.1 Candoco Dance Company, Let’s Talk About Dis by Hetain Patel 189 10.1 Temple Breakers hosting a workshop by B-boy Casper 284 10.2 Temple Breakers preparing to battle at Rhythmic Damage 292 10.3 B-boy Vibe cyphering at Rhythmic Damage battle 295 11.1 A chart illustrating Don McDonagh’s The Complete Guide to Modern Dance (1976) includes only US-based choreographers organized according to choreographic and pedagogical ‘families’ 307 11.2 A map illustrating Patricia Stöckemann’s ‘Tanz im Exil’ (1998) shows one-way movement from Germany and Austria to North and South America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East 319 13.1 B ecoming. Photo: Marc Downie [OpenEndedGroup] and Nick Rothwell [cassiel] 369 13.2 Flamenco dancer Rosa Kostic Cisneros during motion capture for WhoLo Dance 376 Table 2.1 Chart from the SCImago index of dance journals, 2016 61 Notes on Contributors Harmony Bench, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. Her writing can be found in such journals as Theatre Journal, Performance Matters, The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Participations and The International Journal of Screendance, for which she currently serves as co-editor. Essays can also be found in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, Choreographies of 21st Century War and Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies. Elizabeth Bergman is a dancer, improviser and educator based in Philadelphia. She is currently a University Fellow in the doctoral programme in Dance Studies at Temple University. Her dissertation focuses on the short films of Michael Jackson and his choreographic collaborators. Bergman also holds a MFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa (2009). Hetty Blades is Research Fellow in the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. Her research explores philosophical questions around the transmission, documentation and reception of dance. Since completing her PhD at C-DaRE in 2015, Hetty has worked on projects funded by AHRC, ESRC and EU, and published widely on the topic of dance and digitization. She was Researcher in Residence at the Digital Catapult Centre in London in 2016. Yvonne Daniel, Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies from Smith College, has worked as a choreographer/performer and as an anthropologist specializing in Circum-Caribbean societies. Her publications include Rumba (1995), Dancing Wisdom, Embodied Knowledge (SDHS de la Torre Bueno prize winner, 2006) and Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship (National Libraries ‘Choice’ Award, 2011). In recognition of her lifetime commitment and pursuit of excellence in dance research, she received the International Association of Blacks in Dance Scholars’ Award (2018). Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her books include Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art (2001), Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance (2011), Bodies of
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