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Renaissance dance treatises claim that the dance is a language but do not explain how or what dancing communicates. Since the body is the instrument of this hypothetical language, The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau?s definition of dance as a mute rhetoric in Orchesographie. This book shows that the oratorical model for Arbeau?s definition of the dance is epideictic and that although one cannot equate dance and oratorical action, the ends of oratorical action are those of dance: persuasion through charm and emotion.00The analysis of the rhetorical intertext opens the way to a sociological one. Through a reading of courtesy books as well as a chapter of Tuccaro?s L?Art de Sauter et Voltiger en l?air it is shown that dance and social behavior were not discontinuous in the Renaissance. Instructions for the body can be divided into the categories of the pose and movement. They are examined as a model for the most important and widely practiced dance of the Renaissance: the basse danse. The characteristic motion resides in an opposition as well as an interpenetration of stillness and mobility. This is developed through a reading of fifteenth-century dance theorists? concept of misura and fantasmata. Stefano Guazzo?s La Civil Conversazione is used as a textual interpretant to ascertain the strategy of movement and the pose in the interaction between dancer and spectator

Este ensayo parte del análisis de un artículo de Susan Leigh Foster que critica la aplicabilidad de la idea de performatividad de Judith Butler a los estudios de danza, y en particular, el rol del travestismo como una subversión de las normas de género. Foster propone el concepto de coreografía como una alternativa al de performatividad, porque compromete el imaginario histórico y la memoria cultural de la danza, entendida como una materia cuyo análisis debe ser fundamental para la reconceptualización del género a través del movimiento. El artículo revisa esta disputa como un conflicto entre los estudios de danza y la filosofía, y explora las diferencias entre ontología y teatralidad que se encuentran en la raíz del conflicto entre Butler y Foster.
Palabras clave: Género; Performatividad; Expresión; Coreografía; Subversión

This section collects a series of short reflections on the life, camaraderie, and scholarship of Randy Martin, a longtime member of the Social Text editorial collective. In place of definitive, authoritative analyses of Martin's work, these pieces present a montage of personal snapshots by people that collaborated, moved, thought, wrote, edited, and learned with him.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I DANCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- 1 Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies -- 2 Cultural Studies and Dance History -- II SOCIAL LIVES, SOCIAL BODIES -- 3 Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics -- 4 "The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch -- 5 Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference -- 6 Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2 -- 7 Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vtsion of Salome -- 8 The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance -- 9 Some Thoughts on Choreographing History -- 10 Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance -- 11 Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement -- III EXPANDING AGENDAS FOR CRITICAL THINKING -- 12 Dancing Bodies -- 13 Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, HIt Don't Fit, Don't Force It -- 14 Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures -- 15 Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath -- 16 Homogenized Ballerinas -- 17 Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation -- Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti -- Notes on Contributors -- Permissions -- Index