Clare Parfitt

University of Chichester · Department of Dance

This concluding chapter begins with an account of American writer Deanne Stillman’s experience of watching televised coverage of the fall of Baghdad. Stillman remembered witnessing a line of Iraqi men singing and dancing to the song ‘Hotel California’ by the Eagles, the lyrics of which inspired the subtitle of this book. Stillman’s narrative of elu...

This introductory chapter begins with a series of personal memories of dancing salsa, before exploring definitions of popular dance and the intimate entanglement of popular dance practices with both personal and collective dimensions of memory. The chapter then traces the role of popular dancing bodies in the development of ideas about cultural mem...

This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural memories are shared and transformed by dancing bodies adapting yesterday’s steps to today’s concerns...

This article discusses the relationship between early cinema and the live entertainment context from which it emerged in fin-de-sicle Paris. Previous accounts of this relationship by film, dance and visual culture theorists have often identified Loe Fuller's choreography as a key precursor to cinema's confluence of light, movement and technology. T...

This paper examines the ways in which the choreography of Moulin Rouge! offers a range of gazes to the audience through the perspectives of both the characters and the camera itself. Various gendered and imperial/colonial power relationships that occur within the narrative are heightened in the choreography by referring to discourses inscribed in p...