Abstract:

In her landmark essay “Choreographies of Protest,” Susan Leigh Foster articulated the central concerns of the (at the time) developing field of dance studies. Foster’s following analysis, embedded in her argument about the compositional elements of social action, advanced core dance studies methodologies. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Theatre Journal, this essay revisits “Choreographies of Protest,” published in the October 2003 issue, and considers its significance to the fields of theatre, performance, and dance studies. Foster’s famous guiding questions that appeared in this essay, and which foregrounded real-world actions of the body, served to define the methodological approach and possibility of dance studies as a field, both concretizing the queries that previous scholarship had addressed and proposing what might be examined in years to come. In so doing, these seemingly straightforward queries, and the answers they elicit, begin to argue for dance studies as an essential discipline to the humanities, a way of understanding both human experience and human relations.

摘要：

苏珊·利·福斯特（Susan Leigh Foster）在她具有里程碑意义的论文《抗议的编排》中阐明了（当时）发展中的舞蹈研究领域的核心关注点。福斯特的以下分析嵌入了她关于社会行动的构成要素的论点，先进的核心舞蹈研究方法论。值此《戏剧杂志》创刊75周年之际，本文回顾了2003年10月号发表的《抗议编排》，并思考其对戏剧、表演和舞蹈研究领域的意义。福斯特在这篇文章中提出了著名的指导性问题，突出了现实世界中身体的行为，定义了舞蹈研究作为一个领域的方法论途径和可能性，既具体化了以前的学术研究已经解决的问题，也提出了可能的解决方案。未来几年进行检查。通过这样做，这些看似简单的问题及其引出的答案，开始论证舞蹈研究是人文学科的重要学科，是理解人类经验和人际关系的一种方式。