Funny Moves - Dance Humor Politics

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.