Funny Moves
Dance Humor Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197765777
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 233x161x15 mm
- Weight 417 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 700
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Short description:
Funny Moves explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humor from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Funny Moves articulates dance scholarship with theories of laughter, feminist theory, gender/sexuality studies, de/postcolonial studies, film studies, and critical race studies. Insisting that humor adds more than accessory or faulty moves to dance, it invites readers to consider funny moves as dance's Other--the exclusions that define dance and ensure that dance always skirts the ridiculous.
MoreLong description:
Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or conservative, inciting pleasures that counterbalance the artform's often serious codes.
Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, the book's ten authors provide diverse observational techniques and creative vocabularies for finding, analyzing, and theorizing funny moves across dance forms, dance scenes, and dance screens. Some of the authors find hope in the laughter of their artist subjects and their audiences, and some linger in the ambiguity and confusion so created. Each essay takes on a single surprise factor or a choreographic comic rupture, relishing in the amassed effects or affects across an absurdist cinematic, staged, or quotidian sequence. What is "funny" in each case pops up as a wildcard that evokes recognizable shared experiences, sometimes pushing back against dominant or mainstream logic and its supremacist laughter.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments:Dance Humor in Times of Crisis
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section One: Funny Dancing, Formally
1. "Now is the Time. Come, Come!": Unpacking Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in Bharatanatyam
2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in Flamenco
3. Insolent Tangos
Section Two: She Who Laughs Last Dances
4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded Sister
5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film
Section Three: Vamping Onto White Film
6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region
7. Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949)
Section Four: Dancing Funny Otherwise
8. Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay Choreographies
9. Dancing Displa(y)cements: Anticolonial Humor in Al-Hakawatis DestiNations Unknown (Berlin 2020)
10. Transfeminine Joking on Argentina's Bailando por un Sue?o
Index
