Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Backstage
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. First Steps: Feeling through the Ages
• Onstage
  • 3. Hoofing to Freedom with Soul and Sole: Briggs, Sims, and Green
  • 4. Touched by the Timeless Female Creator and Destroyer: Indrani Dances Kuchipudi
  • 5. Resurrecting a Tamiris Spiritual: Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah
  • 6. Symbiosis and Short-Circuit in the Avant-Garde: Douglas Dunn
  • 7. Men Usurp Women's Public Kabuki: Sachiyo Ito Renews Women's Performance
  • 8. Shifting Illusions-Does the Emperor Wear Clothes? Sage Cowles and Molly Davies
  • 9. Cultural Cross-Currents and Creative Identity: The Philippine Dance Company of New York
  • 10. Good versus Evil: Kathakali Dance-Drama from the Kerala Kalamandalam
  • 11. Curtain and Concert Comparisons: Summing Up
• Postscript
  • 12. The Punch of Performance: Re-Creation
• Appendix. Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
• Notes
• References
• Index

About the Author

A leading dance scholar and critic, Judith Lynne Hanna is Affiliate Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. She has written hundreds of articles and numerous books

Reviews

" ... thoroughly original, sound, and stimulating. Judith Hanna has successfully established the nexus between dancer, dance, and audience, and to my knowledge this is the first time that has been achieved. I think that anyone who has anything to do with dance would want to read this book ... " - Ashley Montagu