The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography PHILOSOPHY / Political

The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography PHILOSOPHY / PoliticalThe Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.

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Drawing on ethnography

This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson

Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies

yet pragmatically embraces its potential to facilitate and enable a radical internationalist politics

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often in-depth explorations of inter-institutional projects

Topics include questions of memory and identity

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the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises