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Susan Leigh Foster

Reading Dancing

Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance

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224 pages,
April 1988, Available worldwide
Categories: Cinema & Performance Arts; Dance

Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Foster outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance.
1986 de la Torre Bueno Prize, The Dance Perspectives Foundation in New York