Ramsay Burt
Ramsay Burt is a professor of dance history at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. He has experience from art studies at Leeds University. While he taught history of art he began writing dance criticism for The Yorkshire Post and for several dance magazines. In 1999 he was a visiting professor in performance studies at New York University, and in 2002 he became founding editor, with professor Susan Foster, of the journal Discourses in Dance.
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(Objekt ID 8190)| Object type | Person |
| Functions | Writer, Art Historian, Professor |
| Nationality | British |
| Gender | Male |
Ramsay Burt's first book The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality (Routledge, 1995), has become an important reference work. In 2007 he published Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces, and in 1998 Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance. With Valerie Bringinshaw he has written Writing Dancing Together (2009). Ramsay Burt's work is connected to understanding dance through social, historical and political contexts.
Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2010. 02.11.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/364
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Artistic Strategies in Contemporary Dance (BIT Teatergarasjen) | October 23, 2010 | Other |