Prof. Dr. Susan Leigh Foster
Prof. Dr. Susan Leigh Foster
About me
ist Choreographin, Wissenschaftlerin und Professorin im Department of World Arts and Cultures der UCLA. Sie ist Autorin von ‚Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance‘, (University of California Press, 1986), ‚Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire‘ (Indiana University Press, 1996), und ‚Dances that Describe Themselves: The...
ist Choreographin, Wissenschaftlerin und Professorin im Department of World Arts and Cultures der UCLA. Sie ist Autorin von ‚Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance‘, (University of California Press, 1986), ‚Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire‘ (Indiana University Press, 1996), und ‚Dances that Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull‘ (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). Sie ist Herausgeberin dreier Anthologien: ‚Choreographing History‘ (University of Indiana Press, 1995), ‚Corporealities‘ (Routledge, 1996), und ‚Worlding Dance’ (Palgrave, 2009) und Mitherausgeberin der Zeitschrift Discourses in Dance. Zurzeit beschäftigt sie sich mit dem Verhältnis zwischen Choreographie, Kinästhesie und Empathie.
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choreographer and scholar, is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. She is the author of ‘Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance’, (University of California Press, 1986), ‘Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire’ (Indiana University Press, 1996), and ‘Dances that Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). She is also the editor of three anthologies: ‘Choreographing History’ (University of Indiana Press, 1995), ‘Corporealities’ (Routledge, 1996), and ‘Worlding Dance’ (Palgrave, 2009) and co-editor of the journal Discourses in Dance. She is currently working on the relationships among choreography, kinesthesia, and empathy.