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Worlding Dance
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What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.
By Susan Leigh Foster (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780230205949 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 15, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'?

Paperback:

9780230298385 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2011), cover price $35.00

Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance
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By Susan Leigh Foster
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Hardcover:

9780415596558 | Routledge, December 22, 2010, cover price $125.00

Paperback:

9780415596565 | Routledge, December 15, 2010, cover price $59.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203840702 | Routledge, November 1, 2010, cover price $115.00

Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull
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By Susan Leigh Foster
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Hardcover:

9780819565501 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 4, 2002, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9780819565518 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 4, 2002, cover price $28.95

Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance
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Product Description: The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Philip Brett, Sue-Ellen Case (editor) and Susan Leigh Foster
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Paperback:

9780253213747 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work.

Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane
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Product Description: introduction by Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane (1948-1988) is best known for his seventeen-year personal and artistic partnership with choreographer Bill T. Jones. Their creative interchange defined each other's artistic vision and led to one of the most celebrated collaborations in late-twentieth-century dance...read more
By Bill Bissell, Susan Leigh Foster, Jonathan Green, Bill T. Jones, Robert Longo, Christine Pichini and Arnie Zane
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Paperback:

9780262571272 | Mit Pr, March 19, 1999, cover price $8.75 | About this edition: introduction by Bill T.

Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
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Product Description: "Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research." ―Nineteenth-Century French Studies"This work is a landmark in the field and belongs in all libraries serving undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in dance...read more
By Susan Leigh Foster
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Hardcover:

9780253330819 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Susan Foster traces the development of the story ballet from the pantomimes of early 18th-century theaters through the Revolutionary fetes to the well-known romantic ballets La Sylpbide and Giselle.

Paperback:

9780253212160 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: "Undoubtedly, Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance history research.

Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power
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By Susan Leigh Foster (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780415121385 | Routledge, December 1, 1995, cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9780415121392 | Routledge, July 1, 1995, cover price $53.95

Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality
By Philip Brett, Sue-Ellen Case (editor) and Susan Leigh Foster (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780253329011 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $39.95

Choreographing History
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Product Description: "... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body...read more
By Susan Leigh Foster (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780253324115 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: ".

Paperback:

9780253209351 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.00

Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance
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Suggests a new theory of dance, describes four models for representation in dance, and discusses the work of modern choreographers, including Balanchine, Graham, and Tharp
By Susan Leigh Foster
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Hardcover:

9780520055490 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Suggests a new theory of dance, describes four models for representation in dance, and discusses the work of modern choreographers, including Balanchine, Graham, and Tharp

Paperback:

9780520063334 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1988), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Suggests a new theory of dance, describes four models for representation in dance, and discusses the work of modern choreographers, including Balanchine, Graham, and Tharp

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