Funny Moves

Dance Humor Politics

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Marta E. Savigliano, Hannah Schwadron, Los Angeles) Savigliano, Marta E. (Professor Emerita of Critical Dance Studies, Professor Emerita of Critical Dance Studies, Dance Department, University of California, Riverside and of Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures Department, University of California, Florida State University) Schwadron, Hannah (Associate Professor of Dance, School of Dance, Associate Professor of Dance, School of Dance, Marta E Savigliano

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Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or conservative, inciting pleasures that counterbalance the artform's often serious codes.Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, the book's ten authors provide diverse observational techniques and creative vocabularies for finding, analyzing, and theorizing funny moves across dance forms, dance scenes, and dance screens. Some of the authors find hope in the laughter of their artist subjects and their audiences, and some linger in the ambiguity and confusion so created. Each essay takes on a single surprise factor or a choreographic comic rupture, relishing in the amassed effects or affects across an absurdist cinematic, staged, or quotidian sequence. What is "funny" in each case pops up as a wildcard that evokes recognizable shared experiences, sometimes pushing back against dominant or mainstream logic and its supremacist laughter.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-23
Mått161 x 233 x 15 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197765777

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Marta E. Savigliano is Professor Emerita of Critical Dance Studies, Dance Department, University of California, Riverside and of Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures Department, University of California Los Angeles. She is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion, Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation and of numerous articles. She received the Dance Studies Association Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award (2024). Hannah Schwadron is Associate Professor of Dance, School of Dance, Florida State University. She is the author of The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender, and Jewish Joke-Work in US Pop Culture and various published essays. She received the de la Torre Bueno Prize for Best First Book (2018).

Acknowledgments: Dance Humor in CrisisList of Contributors IntroductionMarta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron Section One: Funny Dancing, Formally 1. "Now is the time. Come, come!": Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in BharatanatyamAnusha Kedhar 2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in FlamencoMichelle Heffner Hayes 3. Insolent TangosMarta E. Savigliano Section Two: She Who Laughs Last Dances 4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded SisterAdanna K. Jones 5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action FilmEsha Niyogi De Section Three: Vamping Onto White Film 6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego RegionMinerva Tapia 7. Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949)Anthea Kraut Section Four: Dancing Funny Otherwise 8. Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay ChoreographiesYutian Wong 9. Dancing Displa(y)cements: Anticolonial Humor in Al-Hakawati's DestiNations Unknown (Berlin 2020) Hannah Schwadron 10. Transfeminine Joking on Argentina's Bailando por un SueñoJeffrey Tobin Index