Gestures of music theater the performativity of song and dance edited by Dominic Symonds and Millie Taylor

Bibliografía: p. 299-314. -- Índices.

I. Singing the dance, dancing the song. The Song's the thing : capturing the "sung" to make it "song"/ Dominic Symonds. -- The (Un)pleasure of song : on the enjoyment of listening to opera, / Carlo Zuccarini. II. Performativity as dramaturgy. -- Relocating the song : Julie Taymor's jukebox musical, "Across the universe" (2007) / George Rodosthenous. -- Dynamic shape : the dramaturgy of song and dance in Lloyd Webber's "Cats" / Ben Macpherson. III. -- Dance breaks and dream ballets : transitional moments in musical theater / Mary Jo Lodge. -- "Love, let me sing you" : the liminality of song and dance in LaChiusas's "Bernarda Alba" (2006) /Matthew Lockitt. IV. Performativity as identity. -- Tapping the ivories : Jazz and Tap Dance in "Jelly's last jam" (1992) / Kathryn Edney. --"Everything's coming up Kurt" : the Broadway song in "Glee" / Jessica Sternfeld. -- Angry dance : postmodern innovation, masculinities, and gender subversion / Judith A. Sebesta. V. Performativity as context. -- Deconstructing the singer : the concerts of Laurie Anderson / Ainhoa Kaiero Claver. -- Singing and a song : the "Intimate difference" in susan Philipsz's "Lowlands (2010) / Zeynep Bulut. -- Acting operatically : body, voice, and the actress in Beckett's theater / Marianne Sharp. VI. Performativity as practice. -- Vox elettronica : song, dance, and live electronics in the practice pf sound theater / Caroline Wilkins. -- From ear to foot : how choreographers interpret music / Sabine Wilden. -- Singing from stones : physiovocality and Gardzienice's theater of musicality / Konstantinos Thomaidis. VII. Performativity as community. -- Singing the community : the musical theater chorus as character / Bethany Hughes. -- Singing and dancing ourselves : the politics of the ensemble in "A chorus line" (1975) / Millie Taylor. -- Epilogue: Performativity as writing

Recopilación de ensayos sobre canto y danza como expresiones performativas que no solo pretenden entretener sino actuar sobre audiencias e intépretes. Los textos aborad géneros com teatro musical, ópera, teatro y otras prácticas artísticas, de Glee a Gardzienice, de Beckett a Disney, de Broadway a las instalaciones sonoras ganadoras de los premios Turner