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?

part I|176 pages

Matriarchs, Mentoring and Passing on the Heritage

part II|36 pages

Matriarchs

part III|48 pages

Mentoring

chapter III|8 pages

African American Rhythm Tappers

chapter III|15 pages

Mentors of American Jazz Dance

chapter III|14 pages

Body Wisdom

part IV|72 pages

Passing on the Heritage

part II|132 pages

The Physical Body Theory and Practice and Using the Knowledge

part VI|32 pages

The Physical Body

chapter VI|8 pages

Dance has Many Ages

chapter VI|12 pages

The Body Never Lies

part VII|42 pages

Theory and Practice

chapter VII|9 pages

Ballet as a Way of Knowing

chapter VII|2 pages

Governance and Vision

chapter VII|12 pages

A Lion in the Laundromat

chapter VII|6 pages

Love and Power Among the Critics