Yes? No! Maybe…

<p>Covering fifty years of British dance from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock <em>Yes? No! Maybe</em> is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance.</p><p>Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing.</p><p>Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dance’s legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships and investigates questions of subjectivity absence and presence identity gender race and desire using psychoanalytical feminist postmodern post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. </p><p>Artists and practitioners professional performers teachers choreographers and theatre-goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.</p>