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By Emilyn Claid

Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to leading edge modern practitioners corresponding to Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an cutting edge method of acting and observing dance.


Emilyn Claid brings her existence event and interweaves it with educational conception and ancient narrative to create a dynamic method of dance writing.


Using the Seventies revolution of recent dance as a hinge, Claid seems to be again to ballet and ahead to British self sufficient dance that is new dance’s legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships, and investigates questions of subjectivity, absence and presence, identification, gender, race and wish utilizing psychoanalytical, feminist, postmodern, post-structuralist and queer theoretical views.


Artists and practitioners, specialist performers, lecturers, choreographers and theatre-goers will all locate this e-book an informative and insightful read.

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