Bøger af Susan Leigh Foster

What do we feel when we watch dancing? Do we 'dance along' inwardly? Do we sense what the dancer's body is feeling? If we do, how do these responses influence how we experience dancing and how we derive significance from it? This book challenges the idea of a direct psychphysical connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer.

The first critical history of French ballet that illuminates relations of politics, spectacle, gender, and narrative.

Outlines four models for representation in dance which are illustrated through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers and through historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance.

An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.