The Specter of Interdisciplinarity

Burt explores some of the reasons underlying resistance among Anglo-American dance scholars to the use of interdisciplinary methodologies. By doing so, it aims to give an account of the public space in which recent examples of theater dance from Europe and the US map out complex webs of relationships between corporeal, linguistic, visual, and aural levels of signification. Burt further argues that only an embrace of interdisciplinary methodology can enable dance studies to move beyond identity politics and toward questions of agency.