Retooling the discipline
Subtitle: research and teaching strategies for the 21st century
By: [Linda J. Tomko, compiler]
Series: Proceedings, Society of Dance History Scholars -- 17th
Publisher: University of California, Riverside; Society of Dance History Scholars
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Riverside, Calif.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Dance; Technological innovations; Congresses; History; Study and teaching; Choreography; Computer simulation
Other titles: Proceedings Society of Dance History Scholars
Notes: "Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, 10-13 February 1994."

"Seventeenth Annual Conference"--P. i.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. History as creative (re) construction / Iro Tembeck; title: 2. Border tensions in the discipline of dance history / Janet Adshead-Lansdale; title: 3. Circles of meaning: the cultural contexts of Ida Rubenstein's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien / Lynn Garafola; title: 4. Reuniting the archivist and the historian: preparing graduate dance history students for the perservation of the historical legacy of dance / Linda H. James; title: 5. Defining an organizational ecology for dance / Thomas K. Hagood; title: Musicological tools for dance research; title: 6. Researching dance in the music library / James P. Cassaro; title: 7. Choreographies in context / Rebecca Hariis-Warrick; title: 8. Musical scores as dance sources / Marian Smith; title: 9. African-American dance: research and course development / John O. Perpener; title: 10. The relevance of dance to presonal & social development: a case study of mature-age Australian Aboriginal students / Valda Craig; title: 11. "The State of the Art:" current practices in teaching dance history / Sandra Kurtz; title: 12. Nineteenth-century gymnastics: beyond strength and health / Deborah Jowitt; title: 13. Mannerist aesthetics in the court dance of Fabritio Caroso / Judith Gelernter; title: 14. Dance discourses: rethinking the history of the "Oriental Dance" / Joan L. Erdman; title: Working between dance and theatre: pedagogy and research; title: 15. Working between dance and theatre: dancing between disciplines / Bud Coleman; title: 16. Working between dance and theatre: multiculuralism, performance, and media / Joana Harris; title: 17. Working between dance and theatre: Isador Duncan and Henrik Ibsen / Susan Manning; title: 18. Working between dance and theatre: performance studies/cultural studies / Amy Koritz; title: 19. Working between dance and theatre: audience discussion summary / Susan Manning; title: Theorizing a dance for Walt Whitman; title: 20. Envisioning America: a dance for Wlat Whitman / Ellen Graff; title: 21. Laban movement: analysis as a tool for theorizing dance for Walt Whitman / Carol-Lynne Moore.; title: (cont'd) 22. Where's the body? / Tenney Nathanson; title: 23. "The rudiments of genteel behavior:" the Alexander technique and teaching contemporary dancers to perform eighteenth-century dance style; title: Phyliis G. Richmond; title: 24. Living dance history: teaching dance history in a tudio, not at a desk / Siân Fefrguson; title: 25. Essential gestures: performance and cultural memory / Joseph Roach; title: 26. Response / Sally Banes; title: 27. Subversive strategies in The Hard Nut / Gay Morris; title: 28. Structuring a dance realism: form versus content in the American revolutionary dance / Stacey Prickett; title: 29. What can the computer do for me? Philosophical issues and practical consideration for the dance historian / Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt; title: 30. Gweneth Lloyd's Shadow on the Prairie: the computer-assisted dance history lesson / Mary Jane Warner; title: 31. The muscle is a mind: teaching dance history through multi-sensory pedagogy / Lynne Conner and Susan Gillis; title: 32. Pedagogy and dance history developing the dance scholar in the studio / Sherrie Barr and Jenifer P. Craig; title: 33. Musical/Choreographic discourse: method, music thoery and meaning / Stephanie Jordan; title: 34. Danceing data: the implications of hypermedia in dance ethnology / Lisa C. Arkin; title: 37. Using computer technology for dance in the ancient roman period / A. William Smith; title: 36. Politics, policy and players: the arts on the historical stage / Christina Ashby-Martin; title: 37. Private fantasy and public ambivalence / Carol Marin; title: 38. Borrowing from feminist theory / Susan Manning; title: 39. Oral history methods for the dance historian / Lesley Farlow; title: 40. Choregraphing and improvising the interview / Jennifer Fisher; title: 41. Designing theme courses / Selma Odom; title: 42. Program.