Dance: Books

"Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form...as a poignant performance medium with philosophical and political implications." (from the back cover)

"(This) ...work is both about dancing and is a dance. It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism." (taken from the back cover, Janice LaPointe-Crump)

"Poised at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies, "Choreographing Asian America" is the first book-length examinatino of the role of Orientalist discourse in shaping Asian Americanist entanglements with U.S. modern dance history." (taken from back cover, Josephine Lee)

"In "Movement and Modernism," Mester contributes to our notions about the movement OF modernism, for despite the extraordinarily varied aesthetic styles and subject matters of Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, adn Willimas, their shared fascinatino with early twentieth-century dance imposes a further unity upon their collective works." (from the front cover flap)