Covering fifty years of British dance; from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock; Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance.Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing.Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge; Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dancersquo;s legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships; and investigates questions of subjectivity; absence and presence; identity; gender; race and desire using psychoanalytical; feminist; postmodern; post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. Artists and practitioners; professional performers; teachers; choreographers and theatre-goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.
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