Funny moves

dance humor politics

Marta E. Savigliano, Hannah Schwadron (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2025 | 1. Auflage
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776577-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Crisis
List of Contributors

Introduction
Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron

Section One: Funny Dancing, Formally

1. "Now is the time. Come, come!": Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in Bharatanatyam
Anusha Kedhar

2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in Flamenco
Michelle Heffner Hayes

3. Insolent Tangos
Marta E. Savigliano

Section Two: She Who Laughs Last Dances

4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded Sister
Adanna K. Jones

5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film
Esha Niyogi De

Section Three: Vamping Onto White Film

6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region
Minerva 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 Choreographies
Yutian 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 Sueño
Jeffrey Tobin

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationen
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 233 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-776577-7 / 0197765777
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776577-7 / 9780197765777
Zustand	Neuware