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A Mark Franko Reader
Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays...
"In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th c...
"... almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." -- Signs "... [an] important step... in the inel...
Ideologies of the Baroque Body
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early bar...
Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation
Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the kee...
Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of co...
The Life in the Work
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I Want to Go to Heaven but I Don’t Want to Die By: Mark Franko Take a journey though author Mark Franko’s observations and inspirations in I Want ...
Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s
Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s. In this insightful new book, Mark Franko explores the many genres of the...
Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance (1955–1964)
How extraordinary everyday relationships shape dance....
Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque
A groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and representation of sovereignty in French Baroque dance repertoires -- in particular, co...
"I find writing poetry a relaxing hobby. I like to tell a little story in my poems, so I titled the book "Tales and Poems'"--About the Author...