Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

<em>The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment</em> brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this <em>Handbook </em>addresses originality plagiarism historicity and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory pedagogy theory of history reconstruction as a methodology testimony and witnessing theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.<br>