Dance, Space and Subjectivity

Briginshaw, V.

This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. By focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body-space interfaces and 'in-between spaces', the dances and dance films are read 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual able-bodied, male norm.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-08-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230229792

DOI: 10.1057/9780230272354

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 242