Funny Moves PAPERBACK 9780197765777

Oxford University Press Inc

Funny Moves\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nTitle: Funny Moves\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc\nPublication year: 2025\nISBN-13: 9780197765777\nISBN-10: 0197765777\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFunny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance''s Other--the missteps or oversteps that don''t fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or conservative, inciting pleasures that counterbalance the artform'.