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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Dr. Sherril (Chair / Professor of Dance, Chair / Professor of Dance, Temple University) Dodds

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Oxford Handbooks: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

 

This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.


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In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.


ISBN
9780190639082
Pagina's
680
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Handbooks
NUR
670
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Theater- film- en televisiewetenschap