• List of Illustrations Preface A Note on the Text Acknowledgments Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits
• PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923) 1) Amoureuses and Druidesses 2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich) 3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius) 4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein) 5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others)
• Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897)
• The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898)
• 1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900) 2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901) Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909)
• PART TWO: BODIES IN MOTION The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912) The Young Generation (1912) The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913) The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913) Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913) A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913) The Russian Dancer (1913) The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913)
• The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913) The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913) The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913) Anna Pavlova (1914) A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914) Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915) Kseniya Makletsova (1915) Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915) Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916) The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916) Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916) Tamara Karsavina (1916) Vera Karalli (1916)
• Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917) The Classical Dancer (1922) Elsa Vill (1922) Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922) Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922) The Animated Flower (1923) Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923) Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923) Elena Liukom (1923) Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923) The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923) On the Russian Ballet (1923) The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924).
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Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is.
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• Cover; Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• chapter 1 1933;
• chapter 2 1934;
• chapter 3 1934-​1935;
• chapter 4 1935;
• chapter 5 1935-​1936;
• chapter 6 1936;
• chapter 7 1937;
• chapter 8 1937-​1938 (I);
• chapter 9 1937-​1938 (II);
• chapter 10 1939-​1940; List of Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, the first decade of their collaborative efforts was anything but assured. Tracing the tangled histories of two of the most important figures in twentieth-century dance, Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise offers a fresh perspective on a pivotal period in cultural history. Deeply researched using sources only made available in recent years, the book challenges the mythologies surrounding the early years of the Balanchine-Kirstein enterprise. It also reveals the full extent of Kirstein's essential role and offers reconstructive analysis of lost works, as well as new and surprising details regarding some of Balanchine's most iconic ballets, including Serenade, Apollo, and Concerto Barocco. This history involved artists including Richard Rodgers, Martha Graham, George Gershwin, Katherine Dunham, Vera Zorina, and Igor Stravinsky, as well as dozens of lesser known players whose contributions have yet to be fully acknowledged. Capturing the full sweep of Balanchine and Kirstein's collaborative work across multiple genres and institutions, this book reveals their partnership in all of its exciting and ungainly complexity, showing how the 1930s Balanchine was not the artist that he would eventually become, and how the same was true of the institutions that he and Kirstein jointly created.
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• Part I. Commercial Sports as a University Function:
• 1. Strange bedfellows--
• 2. Priorities--
• 3. The bigness of 'big time'-- Part II. The Uses of Big-Time College Sports:
• 4. Consumer product, mass obsession--
• 5. Commercial enterprise--
• 6. Institution builder--
• 7. Beacon for campus culture-- Part III. Reckoning:
• 8. Ends and means--
• 9. Prospects for reform-- Appendices.
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For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated, and athletic budgets have ballooned. In the second edition of his influential book Big-Time Sports in American Universities, Clotfelter continues to examine the role of athletics in American universities, building on his argument that commercial sports have become a core function of the universities that engage in them. Drawing on recent scandals on large-scale college campuses and updates on several high-profile court cases, Clotfelter brings clear economic analysis to the variety of problems that sports raise for university and public policy, providing the basis for the continuation of constructive conversations about the value of big-time sports in higher education.
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In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppoe explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. He provides a description of the evolution and various interpretations of chess. Furthermore, the book offers the study of the old Celtic and Viking board games and the old Hawaiian board game Konane, as well as a new hypothesis about the interpretation of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disk. Descriptions of several chess variations, including some highlights of the game theory and tiling in different dimensions, are followed by a multidimensional symmetrical n-person strategy game model, based on chess. Final chapter (Concluding remarks) offers the new generalizations of the Euler-Poincare's Characteristic, Pi and Fibonacci sequence.
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• 1. Editorial introduction Peter K. Smith and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine-- Part I. Evolution of Play:
• 2. New directions in studying the evolution of play Gordon M. Burghardt and Sergio M. Pellis--
• 3. The neurochemistry of social play behaviour in rats Viviana Trezza, E. J. Marijke Achterberg and Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren--
• 4. Fur, fun and future fitness: the evolution of play in mammals Lynda Sharpe--
• 5. Nonhuman primate social play: coping with costs Akie Yanagi and Carol Berman--
• 6. Evolutionary functions of play: practice, resilience, innovation, and cooperation Peter Gray--
• 7. Human-animal play: play with pets Gail Melson-- Part II. Development of Play in Humans:
• 8. Infant sensorimotor play: development of socio-cultural competence and enactive cognition Doris Bergen--
• 9. Mother-child and father-child play in different cultural contexts Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Elif Dede Yildirim and Kimberly L. Davidson--
• 10. Object use in childhood: development and possible functions Tony Pellegrini--
• 11. Pretend and social pretend play: complexities, continuities, and controversies of a research field Ageliki Nicolopoulu--
• 12. Rough play: past, present and potential Jennifer L. Hart and Michelle T. Tannock--
• 13. Playing games with rules in early child care and beyond Ditte Winther-Lindqvist--
• 14. Troublesome binaries: playful learning on screen and off Fiona Scott--
• 15. Playing and imagining across the life course: a sociocultural perspective Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur and Artin Goencu-- Part III. Historical and Anthropological Context:
• 16. Play at play in Western Europe, 1500 and 1800 Linda Pollock--
• 17. Play in foraging societies Adam Howell Boyette--
• 18. Play in South American indigenous children Yumi Gosso, Briseida D. Resende and Ana M. A. Carvalho--
• 19. Play in societies influenced by Confucian values Eunjoo Jung and Sophia Han-- Part IV. Theories of Play and Research Methodology:
• 20. Classic theories of play Thomas S. Henricks--
• 21. Brian Sutton-Smith's views on play Anna Beresin, Fraser Brown and Michael M. Patte--
• 22. Methods of studying play James E. Johnson and Pool Ip Dong-- Part V. Play and Learning:
• 23. Play and learning in everyday family contexts Marilyn Fleer--
• 24. Leading children in their 'leading activity': a Vygotskian approach to play Elena Bodrova, Deborah J. Leong, Carrie Germeroth and Crystal Day-Hess--
• 25. The adult as mediator of development in children's play Pentti Hakkarainen and Milda Bredikyte--
• 26. Play, learning and teaching in early childhood education Niklas Pramling, Anne Kultti and Ingrid Pramling-Samuelson--
• 27. Toddlers' play in early childhood education settings Maritta Hannikainen and Hilkka Munter--
• 28. Adult and child learning in playworlds Beth Ferholt, Robert Lecusay and Monica Nilsson--
• 29. Play-literacy: knowns and unknowns in a changing world Kathleen Roskos--
• 30. The problems of play Susan Engel-- Part VI. Play with Special Groups:
• 31. Play and children with autism: insights from research and implications for practice Despina Papoudi and Lila Kossyvaki--
• 32. Play and children with sensory impairments P. Margaret Brown and Anna Bortoli--
• 33. Play and children with physical impairments Cynthia J. Cress--
• 34. A typology of play in medical settings Colleen Baish-Cameron and Michael M. Patte--
• 35. Play therapy: theory and practice Elise Cuschieri--
• 36. Political violence (war and terrorism) and children's play Esther Cohen-- Part VII. Play Spaces and the Rights of Children:
• 37. Play spaces: indoors and out John A. Sutterby--
• 38. Recess: supporting a culture of meaningful play at school Lauren McNamara--
• 39. Playwork: a unique way of working with children Fraser Brown, Alexandra Long and Mike Wragg--
• 40. The right to childhood and the ethos of play Lacey E. Peters and Beth Blue Swadener.
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Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan. The Cambridge Handbook of Play covers the evolution of play in animals, especially mammals; the development of play from infancy through childhood and into adulthood; historical and anthropological perspectives on play; theories and methodologies; the role of play in children's learning; play in special groups such as children with impairments, or suffering political violence; and the practical applications of playwork and play therapy. Written by an international team of scholars from diverse disciplines such as psychology, education, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essential reference presents the current state of the field in play research.
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• List of Contributors, vi Foreword by ICF President, viii Foreword by IOC President, ix Preface, x
• 1 Introduction, 1 Ian Mortimer and Don McKenzie
• 2 Biomechanics and equipment (sprint and slalom): a review of scientifically confirmed information, 12 Barney Wainwright
• 3 The canoe/kayak athlete, 40 Petra Lundstroem, Jorunn Sundgot Borgen, and Don McKenzie
• 4 Physiology of canoeing, 47 Hans Rosdahl, Jose Calbet, A. William Sheel, and Robert Boushel
• 5 Sport psychology for canoe and kayak, 62 Penny Werthner
• 6 Training for canoeing, 71 Martin Hunter and Sylvain Curinier
• 7 Medical problems in canoeing and kayaking, 91 Bo Berglund
• 8 Orthopaedic injuries in canoeing, 97 Jozsef Dobos
• 9 Paracanoe, 106 John Edwards, Anna Bjerkefors, Johanna Rosen, and Olga Tarassova
• 10 Exercise performance in masters canoeing athletes, 116 Bo Berglund
• 11 Diversity in canoe sport, 122 Don McKenzie and Kari-Jean McKenzie Index, 133.
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A new volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series from the International Olympic Committee, this volume Canoeing provides an accessible and comprehensive summary of the topic. Provides a concise, authoritative overview of the science, medicine and psycho-social aspects of canoeing Offers guidance on medical aspects unique to the training and coaching of canoe athletes The only book on this subject endorsed by the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Written and edited by global thought leaders in sports medicine.
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• Alphabetical List of Terms.
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Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of concise entries across sports, martial arts, exercise and fitness, performing arts and cultural sport psychology. This dictionary uses a global approach to cover philosophical and cultural backgrounds, theory, methodology, education and training and fields of application. Each entry includes phenomenon, subject description and definition, related theory and research, practice and application across sports and related performance domains. An authoritative, balanced and accessible presentation of the state-of-the-art in key subject areas, this dictionary is a must-have reference for anyone studying or practicing sport psychology.
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• Chapter 1. Requirements-based design of serious games and learning software: an introduction to the vegas effect
• Chapter 2. Design principles for online role play simulations to address groupthink tendency in professional training: an exploration
• Chapter 3. Virtual standardized patients for interactive conversational training: a grand experiment and new approach
• Chapter 4. Investigating epistemic stances in game play through learning analytics
• Chapter 5. If the gear fits, spin it again!: embodied education, design components, and in-play assessments
• Chapter 6. Monster mischief: a game-based assessment of selective sustained attention in young children
• Chapter 7. A digital game for undergraduate calculus: immersion, calculation, and conceptual understanding
• Chapter 8. "Nervousness and maybe even some regret": videogames and the cognitive-affective model of historical empathy
• Chapter 9. Using notions of "play" over the life course to inform game design for older populations
• Chapter 10. An extended study on training and physical exercise in esports.

Although gaming was once primarily used for personal entertainment, video games and other similar technologies are now being utilized across various disciplines such as education and engineering. As digital technologies become more integral to everyday life, it is imperative to explore the underlying effects they have on society and within these fields. Exploring the Cognitive, Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Gaming and Simulations provides emerging research on the societal and mental aspects of gaming and how video games impact different parts of an individual's life. While highlighting the positive, important results of gaming in various disciplines, readers will learn how video games can be used in areas such as calculus, therapy, and professional development. This book is an important resource for engineers, graduate-level students, psychologists, game designers, educators, sociologists, and academics seeking current information on the effects of gaming and computer simulations across different industries.
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• Chapter 1. Requirements-based design of serious games and learning software: an introduction to the vegas effect
• Chapter 2. Design principles for online role play simulations to address groupthink tendency in professional training: an exploration
• Chapter 3. Virtual standardized patients for interactive conversational training: a grand experiment and new approach
• Chapter 4. Investigating epistemic stances in game play through learning analytics
• Chapter 5. If the gear fits, spin it again!: embodied education, design components, and in-play assessments
• Chapter 6. Monster mischief: a game-based assessment of selective sustained attention in young children
• Chapter 7. A digital game for undergraduate calculus: immersion, calculation, and conceptual understanding
• Chapter 8. "Nervousness and maybe even some regret": videogames and the cognitive-affective model of historical empathy
• Chapter 9. Using notions of "play" over the life course to inform game design for older populations
• Chapter 10. An extended study on training and physical exercise in esports.

Although gaming was once primarily used for personal entertainment, video games and other similar technologies are now being utilized across various disciplines such as education and engineering. As digital technologies become more integral to everyday life, it is imperative to explore the underlying effects they have on society and within these fields. Exploring the Cognitive, Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Gaming and Simulations provides emerging research on the societal and mental aspects of gaming and how video games impact different parts of an individual's life. While highlighting the positive, important results of gaming in various disciplines, readers will learn how video games can be used in areas such as calculus, therapy, and professional development. This book is an important resource for engineers, graduate-level students, psychologists, game designers, educators, sociologists, and academics seeking current information on the effects of gaming and computer simulations across different industries.
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• Intro; Contents; On Thinking Playfully; Preface; I
• Finding the Fun; 1
• The Search for Fun; Set-Outsideness; Ludic Forms; Ambiguity; II
• Fun; 2
• Reclaiming Fun; 3
• The Problem with Fun; The Language of Fun; How to Talk about Fun in a World without "Fun"; Fun en Español; The Scientific Pursuit of Fun; The Ambivalence of Fun; 4
• Fun in the Age of Consumerism; Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences; Smaller Aesthetics; Fun in the Age of Consumerism; 5
• The Aesthetic of Meaningful Choice; Computer Science; Cybernetics; Systems Dynamics; Game Theory; The Creation of the Aesthetic of Meaningful Choice

• In Pursuit of First PrinciplesCodification and Education; Theorizing Games; Connecting the Dots; 6
• Electric Kool-Aid Playground; III
• Taste; 7
• Peeling Back the Layers of Taste; Choice of Games (Genre); Play Styles; Play Communities; Culture Reflects Back; 8
• Monopoly, Taste, and Games; 9
• Duchamp + Chess; 10
• The Curious Case of Myst; 11
• We the Gamers; Disaster Box Seats; Gamergate Gets Personal; The Monster Rises; The Blame Game; IV
• Games; 12
• Fun in Games; 13
• Coming to Terms with Basketball; 14
• Making Friends in a Robot Playground; 15
• Go East (or West or North or South); Notes

• PrefaceChapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 15; Bibliography; Index

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play. "Fun" is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage-it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty was to art, they argue, fun is to play and games-the aesthetic goal that we measure our experiences and interpretations against. Sharp and Thomas use this fun-centered aesthetic framework to explore a range of games and game issues-from workplace bingo to Meow Wolf, from basketball to Myst, from the consumer marketplace to Marcel Duchamp. They begin by outlining three elements for understanding the drive, creation, and experience of fun: set-outsideness, ludic forms, and ambiguity. Moving from theory to practice and back again, they explore the complicated relationships among the titular fun, taste, and games. They consider, among other things, the dismissal of fun by game journalists and designers; the seminal but underinfluential game Myst, and how tastes change over time; the shattering of the gamer community in Gamergate; and an aesthetics of play that goes beyond games.
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This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common and that distinguishes them from other activities; here many take their start from Bernard Suits's celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper and either elaborate it or propose an alternative to it. Other essays discuss normative issues that arise within games and sports, such as about fairness, for example in the treatment of male and female athletes. Yet others consider broader evaluative questions about the value of games and sports, which some see as enabling the display of distinctive excellences. Games, Sports, and Play includes a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The volume's chapters approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles but always in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation.
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• Micros in the margins : computer technology in the state socialist society
• Hunting down the machine : trajectories of microcomputer domestication
• Our amateur can work miracles : infrastructures of computer hobby
• Who's afraid of gameplay? : Czechoslovak discourses on computer games
• Lighting up the shadows : informal distribution of game software
• Bastard children of the West : establishing a domestic coding culture
• Empowered by games : games as a means of self-expression and activism.

How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Aside from the exceptional history of Tetris, very little is known about gaming culture behind the Iron Curtain. But despite the scarcity of home computers and the absence of hardware and software markets, Czechoslovakia hosted a remarkably active DIY microcomputer scene in the 1980s, producing more than two hundred games that were by turns creative, inventive, and politically subversive. In Gaming the Iron Curtain, Jaroslav Svelch offers the first social history of gaming and game design in 1980s Czechoslovakia, and the first book-length treatment of computer gaming in any country of the Soviet bloc. Svelch describes how amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Sheltered in state-supported computer clubs, local programmers fashioned games into a medium of expression that, unlike television or the press, was neither regulated nor censored. In the final years of Communist rule, Czechoslovak programmers were among the first in the world to make activist games about current political events, anticipating trends observed decades later in independent or experimental titles. Drawing from extensive interviews as well as political, economic, and social history, Gaming the Iron Curtain tells a compelling tale of gaming the system, introducing us to individuals who used their ingenuity to be active, be creative, and be heard.
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• A second gestural revolution and gesturing hands in Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Mary Wigman, and Tilly Losch
• Gestures of vibrating (interruption) in Rudolf von Laban, mary Wigman, and Walter Benjamin
• Conducts and codes of gesture in Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka
• Gestural (in)visibility in Béla Balázs and Helmuth Plessner
• Gestures between symptom and symbol in Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud
• Gestures between the auratic and the profane : Niddy Impekoven's and Franz Kafka's reenactments of liturgy
• Gestural drag : baroquism and modernist minstrelsy in alexander and clotilde sakharoff
• Floral pathochoreographies : mime studies by Harald Kreutzberg, Alfred Döblin, and Jo Mihaly.

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agamben's preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Ranciere's multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht highlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readings of Franz Kafka and Alfred Doeblin. Gestural Imaginaries proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes a case for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself.
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• The history of golf in Mexico
• Invisibility and hyper-visibility
• Inside the community
• An ostensibly raceless nation
• The racialization of space
• Gender on the golf course.

While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
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• The dancing body on the line : an introduction
• Mobile bodies
• The revolution was danced
• Dance as the art of survival
• Moving trauma
• Common goods
• Epilogue : the history of memory.

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept, "moving otherwise" names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence. Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.
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From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.
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