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A groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and representation of sovereignty in French Baroque dance repertoires -- in particular, court ballet -- and in today's performances of them. Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this genre o...

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 century. A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an appendix of left-wing dance theory articles from th...

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Renaissance dance treatises claim that the dance is a language but do not explain how or what dancing communicates. Since the body is the instrument of this hypothetical language, The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau's definition of dance as a mute rhetoric in Orchesographie. This b...

Often called the Picasso, Stravinksy, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, choreographer and award-winning dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by showing how she wove together strands of love, passion, politics, and myth.

Take a journey through author Mark Franko's observations and inspirations in I Want to Go to Heaven but I Don't Want to Die, his collection of poetry that displays many themes, including life's great mysteries, God and faith, and family and friends. About the AuthorMark Franko is a graduate of Wichita State University, with a B.S. in Medical Technology. He worked 34 years in the laboratory profession and is now 70 years old, retired and living...

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment investigates new forms of choreographic dramaturgy and interpretation inherent. Joining junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners in the field, the handbook shows how the recovery of past dances has come to constitute a new branch of contemporary choreographic activity.

The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar is the first book not only to discuss the resistance to Lifar in the French press at the start of his much-mythologized career, but also the first to present substantial evidence of Lifar's collaborationism and relate it to his artistic profile during the preceding decade.

The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar is the first book not only to discuss the resistance to Lifar in the French press at the start of his much-mythologized career, but also the first to present substantial evidence of Lifar's collaborationism and relate it to his artistic profile during the preceding decade.

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Choreographing Discourses brings together essays published by Mark Franko from 1996 to today. The volume contains the first critical assessments of Frankös contribution to the field, and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Frankös work and its relation to his dance and choreography.

Choreographing Discourses brings together essays published by Mark Franko from 1996 to today. The volume contains the first critical assessments of Frankös contribution to the field, and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Frankös work and its relation to his dance and choreography.

Presents an unprecedented union between dance making and dance scholarship in a single volume~Provides the latest thinking on dance and reenactment in the contemporary field~Posits dance history as a methodology influenced by contemporary performance

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque.

How extraordinary everyday relationships shape dance.

..". almost every page offers provocative commentary on theaesthetics and politics of modern dance." -- Signs..".(an) important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across abridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, andbetweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal"Thiscomplex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history orthe cultural politics of dance." -- Danc...

Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the ...

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Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. The essays collected here reassess and revise traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making as well as ritual and disaster.The methodologies as well as subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary...

Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s.