TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from March 1999

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from March 1999

Oedipus Clintonius.(political scandal mirrors Sophocles' classic)
March 22, 1999... Lots of words have been spent on the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky matter. There is a conspiracy of the Right to overturn the 1996 elections; there is corruption (= sin) in the White House; there is a sexual witch-hunt comparable to the...

In Praise of Preposterous Propositions.
March 22, 1999... To the Editor, I would like to speak out in favor of theory as play, as an essentially aesthetic activity, as a means of having fun, as a mode of turning things upside down just to see what falls out, as a sport where one mixes ideas...

Two Bits for the Arts.(proposal for new funding entity)
March 22, 1999... Ed. note: In the last issue of TDR (T160), Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, wrote about the NEA and the future of the arts. In this issue, William J. Mowder, Associate Dean of TSOA/NYU, makes a practical...

The Incredible Shrinking Man Essay & Board Game.(collaborative essay)
March 22, 1999... a collaborative publication project Goat Island and the Students of the Sunflower Community School, Chicago In early 1997, we had begun work on a new performance, with the phrase the body affected by poison as one of our starting...

The King Is a Thing.(Ronald Reagan's acting)(Bodies of Memory in the Age of Reagan)
March 22, 1999... Bodies of Memory in the Age of Reagan I have some rights of memory in this kingdom which now to claim my vantage doth invite me. --William Shakespeare, Fortinbras in Hamlet Why, I found myself asking repeatedly as the lies,...

Dancing with Diana.(A Study in Hauntology; Princess Diana)
March 22, 1999... A Study in Hauntology(1) We sat on the sofa--my young daughter, Marina, on my lap--lamenting the death of a woman we didn't know. As the coffin slowly made its way towards Westminster Abbey, the commentators reverentially droned on about...

The Geography of Creation.(Decalage as Impulse, Process, and Outcome in the Theatre of Robert Lepage)
March 22, 1999... Decalage as Impulse, Process, and Outcome in the Theatre of Robert Lepage The show you are attending this evening is part of a very specific art form called: THEATRE. And the plot follows the creative evolution of a visual artist. In...

Twisted Bodies.(techniques for contorting)
March 22, 1999... Aspects of Female Contortionism in the Letters of a Connoisseur Contortionism is an ancient, eerie mode of bodily performance whose pleasures invariably disclose a domain, and degrees within it, of the perverse. It is a category of...

An Anatomy of Anatomy.(Nestor Garcia Canclini's Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity and other works discussed)
March 22, 1999... The recent epistemological impasse in the humanities and social sciences--fields whose very existence might be defined by a continually transformed condition of self-reflective crisis--has resulted in broadened horizons, where multicultural...

Desublimation and Morbidity.(Michel Nedjar's rag dolls)
March 22, 1999... What is a doll? What is a doll? It's something strange. It's something from the shadows. It's something from the earth. It's something from the origin. It's something magical. It's something paternal. ...

Digits, Discourse, and Documentation.(Performance Research and Hypermedia)
March 22, 1999... Performance Research and Hypermedia New opportunities will come to pass only if control of the technology is taken from the technologist and given to those who understand human beings, human interaction, communication, pleasure and pain....

Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance. By Sharon Friedler and Susan Glazer. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997; 319 pp.; illustrations. $106.00 cloth, $36.00 paper. Sharon Friedler and Susan Glazer's...

Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage. By Sally Banes. London and New York: Routledge, 1998; 279 pp.; illustrations. $75.00 cloth, $22.99 paper. Sharon Friedler and Susan Glazer's Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary...

Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, `Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, `Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance. By Ramsay Burt. London and New York: Routledge, 1998; 222 pp.; illustrations. $70.00 cloth, $20.99 paper. Cultural studies has animated the best of...

First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism. By Diana Theodores. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996; 180 pp.; illustrations. $78.00 cloth. $30.00 paper. Dance criticism in this...

Marmalade Me.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Marmalade Me. Revised and expanded edition. By Jill Johnston. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998; 315 pp.; illustrations. $19.95 paper. Dance criticism in this country has rarely been considered a literary practice, so it's...

Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934. By Lynne Conner. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997; 177 pp. $35.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Dance criticism in this...