The University of Wisconsin Press

---

Dance / Gay & Lesbian Interest / Cultural Studies

---

 

How to Make Dances in an Epidemic Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS David Gere "Anyone interested in dance or in gay culture or in art and politics should, as I did, find this a fascinating book, impossible to put down." —Sally Banes, editor of Reinventing Dance in the 1960s David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers the first book to examine the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. The time he writes about is one of extremes. A life-threatening medical syndrome is spreading, its transmission linked to sex. Blame is settling on gay men. What is possible in such a highly charged moment, when art and politics coincide? Gere expands the definition of choreography to analyze not only theatrical dances but also ACT-UP protests and the unfurling of the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which dance, protest, and wrenching emotional expression have become essentially indistinguishable. Gere offers a gripping portrait of gay male choreographers struggling to cope with AIDS and its meanings. David Gere is associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. A longtime dance critic, he has previously contributed essays to Loss within Loss and Dancing Desires, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

September 2004 352 pp. 6 x 9 45 b/w photos Cloth $65.00 s ISBN 978-0-299-20080-0 Paper $24.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-20084-8 ADD TO CART

Home | Books | Journals | Events | Textbooks | Authors | Related | Search | Order | Contact

If you have trouble accessing any page in this web site, contact our Web manager. E-mail: webmaster@uwpress.wisc.edu. Updated April 5, 2010 © 2010, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System