ABSTRACT
How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and researched by the educators and dancers Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in Dancing Female . In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations, and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, the contributors strike a balance between a theoretical sense of feminism and its practice in reality. This book presents answers to basic questions about women, power, and action. Why do women choreographers choose to create the dances they do in the manner they do? How do women in dance work independently and organizationally?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|176 pages
Matriarchs, Mentoring and Passing on the Heritage
part I|20 pages
Dancers Talk
part II|36 pages
Matriarchs
part III|48 pages
Mentoring
part IV|72 pages
Passing on the Heritage
part II|132 pages
The Physical Body Theory and Practice and Using the Knowledge
part V|17 pages
Dancers Talk
part VI|32 pages
The Physical Body
part VII|42 pages
Theory and Practice
part VIII|40 pages
Using the Knowledge