Books written by Ramsay Burt

  • Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
    Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

    ... 79–80, 156 Herskovits, Melville (1895–1963) 169–72, 187–8, 205 Hill, Martha 180–1 Hiller, Sussan 163, 189 Hodson, Millicent 38–9, 41, 166, 184, 197 Holm, Hanya (1893–1992) 123–4, 128–9 Honegger, Arthur (1892–1955) 38 hooks, bell 60, ...

  • Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces
    Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces

    ... utopian activist', The Chronicle of Higher Education, (22 November), www.anndaly.com/articles/ rainer.html [accessed 24 June 2005]. Danto, Arthur. 1997. The End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, Princeton, ...

  • Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
    Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

    ... 142, 146, 148, 151, 157, 159, 160; and Kirstein 22–24; on Tudor 170, 173, 175 Marwick, Arthur 13, 123 Mary Wigman School Dresden 60–61 Mary Wigman School New York Branch 62, 186, 188 Massine, Leonid 28 materialism 15, 16, 73–75, 77, ...

  • The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
    The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality

    To look for representational content or intense emotional expression in it would be to miss the subtle quality of the movements themselves which seem, Cohen concludes, quoting Arthur Symons: 'to sum up in themselves the appeal of ...

  • The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
    The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality

    He uses this to examine the work of choreographers like Nijinsky, Graham, Bausch, while relating their dances to the social, political and artistic contexts in which they were produced.

  • Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
    Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

    The dream ballet nevertheless has much in common with Serenade and New Dance in the optimism of the Utopian ideal it presents. Stormy weather Katherine Dunham's dream ballet is shown as part of a night club performance at the end of ...

  • British Dance: Black Routes
    British Dance: Black Routes

    But the work produced by Black British artists has in part been within the context of Britain’s colonial legacy.

  • The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities
    The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

    Kevin Kopelson begins his book, The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky, by acknowledging that Nijinsky didn't consider ... the London premier of Le Sacre du Printemps, Nijinsky famously complained I am accused of a 'crime against grace' ...

  • Writing Dancing Together
    Writing Dancing Together

    Guest, A. H. and Jeschke, C. (1991) Nijinsky's Faune Restored: A Study of Vaslav Nijinsky's 1915 Dance Score, L'après-midi d'un faune, and His Dance Notation System Revealed. Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach. Guest, I. (1972) The Romantic ...

  • The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

    In this challenging and lively book, Ramsay Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance. Taking issue with formalist and modernist accounts of dance, which dismiss gender and...

  • British Dance: Black Routes
    British Dance: Black Routes

    ... Dance Workshop : 7-17 May 1995 Safari Lodge Victoria Falls Zimbabwe . London : africa95 in association with The British Council Zimbabwe , pp . 12-14 . Nii Yartey , F. ( 1995 ) ' Report ' in Pan - Essent - Move africa95 International Dance ...