Rhythms of resurrection: The comebacks of Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis (1879–1968) had one of the first and longest careers as a professional modern dancer. At age 62, she embarked on a “comeback” that lasted nearly three decades, appearing on stage and screen in the dances that had made her an international star earlier in her career. This essay examines the relationship between her well-known “Orientalism,” her feminism, her spirituality, and her perspective on aging and ageism. In particular, it brings into relief her innovative efforts to redefine dance as a feminist project at the intersection of aging and modern dance history. St. Denis converted “oriental tradition” into a feminist dance praxis, thus, staking a claim for the aging dancer under the banner of feminist politics.
Passionate Madonna: The Christian Turn of American Dancer Ruth St. Denis
La danseuse americaine, Ruth St. Denis (1878-1968), avait une passion pour les madonnes dans les trente dernieres annees de sa vie, et elle ajouta Marie dans sa choregraphie. Cet article est centre sur la signification de la danse de St. Denis comme tentative pour penser et ecrire sur quelquechose d'Autre, c'est-a-dire comme projets theologiques, dans ce cas des projets chretiens, qui cherchent a faire passer des objets, idees et actions religieux dans et au moyen de mots. L'auteur s'appuie d'abord sur les propres paroles de St. Denis concernant la danse et sur les quelques photos et films de ses dernieres danses. A la fin, il considere les conclusions possibles a la lumiere de l'etude de Julia Kristeva's, Stabat Mater.
On the ontology of particle mass and energy in special relativity
Einstein claimed that the fundamental dynamical insight of special relativity was the equivalence of mass and energy. I disagree. Not only are mass and energy not equivalent (whatever exactly that means) but talk of such equivalence obscures the real dynamical insight of special relativity, which concerns the nature of 4-forces and interactions more generally. In this paper I present and defend a new ontology of special relativistic particle dynamics that makes this insight perspicuous and I explain how alleged cases of mass–energy conversion can be accommodated within that ontology.