Dance And Belonging

Author : Crystal U. Davis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476684451

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This book details how bias affects the brain, perception and decision-making--and identifies how these factors affect the field of dance. It applies social psychology to the events, communities, and teaching strategies in dance classrooms of all sizes and age ranges. Using critical theory as a framework, chapters define implicit biases and explore the power dynamics on and off the dance floor. Various examples of bias in dance education are examined in detail, as are the ramifications of prejudice and inequity. The book sets out the mechanisms that both exacerbate and disrupt the effects of biases, ultimately exploring practiced solutions for addressing bias in the dance classroom. It is intended to inspire dance students, teachers, administrators and arts stakeholders to begin new conversations that will allow dance classrooms to become more welcoming, inclusive spaces.

Author : Phil Chan
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1734732482

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Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intention and Impact by Phil Chan Pdf

Who would have guessed that one short conversation with New York City Ballet Artistic Director Peter Martins would change the course of how we approach America's favorite holiday ballet, and serve as a catalyst for changing how we talk about race in America? Phil Chan, arts advocate and co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, chronicles his journey navigating conversations around race, representation, and inclusion arising from issues in presenting one short dance-the Chinese variation from The Nutcracker. Armed with new vocabulary, he recounts his process and pitfalls in advising Salt Lake City's Ballet West on the presentation of a lost Balanchine work from 1925, Le Chant du Rossignol.Chan encounters orientalism, cultural appropriation, and yellowface, and witnesses firsthand the continuing evolution of an Old World aristocratic dance form in a New World democratic environment. As a storyteller, Chan presents a mix of dance and Chinese American history, personal anecdotes, and best practices for any professional arts organization to use for navigating issues around race, while outlining an essential path American ballet must take in order for our beloved art form to stay alive for a growingly diverse 21st century audience.

Author : Toko-pa Turner
Publisher : Her Own Room Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Belonging by Toko-pa Turner Pdf

2018 Readers' Favorite Gold Winner 2019 IAN Book of the Year Award 2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner Feel like you don’t belong? You’re not alone.The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world — the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. But what if belonging isn’t a place at all? What if it’s a skill that has been lost or forgotten? With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world.

Author : Allana C. Lindgren,Batia Boe Stolar,Clara Sacchetti
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771124843

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Moving Together by Allana C. Lindgren,Batia Boe Stolar,Clara Sacchetti Pdf

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations. Examples include Fijian dance in Vancouver; Japanese dance in Lethbridge; Danish, Chinese, Kathak, and Flamenco dance in Toronto; African and European contemporary dance styles in Montréal; and Ukrainian dance in Cape Breton. Interviews with Indigenous and Middle Eastern dance artists along with an artist statement by a Bharata Natyam and contemporary dance choreographer provide valuable artist perspectives. Contributors offer strategies to decolonize dance education and also challenge longstanding critiques of multiculturalism. Moving Together demonstrates that dance is at the cutting edge of rethinking the contours of race and ethnicity in Canada and is necessary reading for scholars, students, dance artists and audiences, and everyone interested in thinking about the future of racial and ethnic pluralism in Canada.

Author : Pamela Fuller,Mark Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982144326

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The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias by Pamela Fuller,Mark Murphy Pdf

A “profound” (Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks), timely, must-have guide to understanding and overcoming bias in the workplace from the experts at FranklinCovey. Unconscious bias affects everyone. It can look like the disappointment of an HR professional when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave. It can look like preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school. It can look like assuming a man is more entitled to speak in a meeting than his female junior colleague. Ideal for every manager who wants to understand and move past their own preconceived ideas, The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias is a “must-read” (Sylvia Acevedo, CEO, rocket scientist, STEM leader, and author) that explains that bias is the result of mental shortcuts, our likes and dislikes, and is a natural part of the human condition. And what we assume about each other and how we interact with one another has vast effects on our organizational success—especially in the workplace. This book teaches you how to overcome unconscious bias and provides more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheet and a list of ways to reframe your unconscious thoughts. According to the experts at FranklinCovey, your workplace can achieve its highest performance rate once you start to overcome your biases and allow your employees to be whole people. By recognizing bias, emphasizing empathy and curiosity, and making true understanding a priority in the workplace, we can unlock the potential of every person we encounter.

Author : Patria Román-Velázquez,Jessica Retis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030534448

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Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging by Patria Román-Velázquez,Jessica Retis Pdf

This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. The authors discuss how networks of solidarity and local struggles are played out, enacted, negotiated and experienced in different spatial spheres, whether this be migration routes into London, work spaces, diasporic media and urban places. Each of these spaces are explored in separate chapters to argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this context we witness manifestations of British Latinidad that invoke new forms of belongingness beyond and against old colonial powers.

Author : Indubala I Satija
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681741819

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The Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indubala I Satija Pdf

Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indu Satija, with contributions by Douglas Hofstadter, is the first book ever to tell the story of the "Hofstadter butterfly", a beautiful and fascinating graph lying at the heart of the quantum theory of matter. The butterfly came out of a simple-sounding question: What happens if you immerse a crystal in a magnetic field? What energies can the electrons take on? From 1930 onwards, physicists struggled to answer this question, until 1974, when graduate student Douglas Hofstadter discovered that the answer was a graph consisting of nothing but copies of itself nested down infinitely many times. This wild mathematical object caught the physics world totally by surprise, and it continues to mesmerize physicists and mathematicians today. The butterfly plot is intimately related to many other important phenomena in number theory and physics, including Apollonian gaskets, the Foucault pendulum, quasicrystals, the quantum Hall effect, and many more. Its story reflects the magic, the mystery, and the simplicity of the laws of nature, and Indu Satija, in a wonderfully personal style, relates this story, enriching it with a vast number of lively historical anecdotes, many photographs, beautiful visual images, and even poems, making her book a great feast, for the eyes, for the mind and for the soul.

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199377336

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Queer Dance by Clare Croft Pdf

'Queer Dance' challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The text joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.

Author : Sejal Shah
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : 9780820357232

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This is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah Pdf

Deluxe -- Thank You -- Pelham Road -- There Is No Mike Here -- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps -- Temporary Talismans -- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be -- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary -- Ring Theory -- Saris and Sorrows -- Voice Texting with My Mother.

Author : Jike Chong,Yue Cathy Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781617298899

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How to Lead in Data Science by Jike Chong,Yue Cathy Chang Pdf

Lead your data science teams and projects to success! To make a consistent, meaningful impact as a data science leader, you must articulate technology roadmaps, plan effective project strategies, support diversity, and create a positive environment for professional growth. This book delivers the wisdom and practical skills you need to thrive as a data science leader at all levels, from team member to the C-suite. "How to lead in data science" shares unique leadership techniques from high-performance data teams. It's filled with best practices for balancing project trade-offs and producing exceptional results, even when beginning with vague requirements or unclear expectations. You'll find a clearly presented modern leadership framework based on current case studies, with insights reaching all the way to Aristotle and Confucius. As you read, you'll build practical skills to grow and improve your team, your company's data culture, and yourself.

Author : Prarthana Purkayastha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137375179

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Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism by Prarthana Purkayastha Pdf

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati Sircar.

Author : Nyama McCarthy-Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626079

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Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World by Nyama McCarthy-Brown Pdf

Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education, choreographing dance about socially charged contemporary issues, and incorporating Native American dances into the curriculum, among other topics. The application of relevant pedagogy in the dance classroom enables instructors to teach methods that reflect students' culture and affirm their experiences.

Author : John RIDER (Bishop of Killaloe.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1617
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023666749

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Rider's dictionarie corrected, and with the addition of above five hundred words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a Dictionarie etymologicall, deriving everie word from his native fountaine ... by F. Holyoke by John RIDER (Bishop of Killaloe.) Pdf

Author : Helen Thomas,Stacey Prickett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315306537

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The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies by Helen Thomas,Stacey Prickett Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.

Author : MRS. LILLY GROVE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DANCING by MRS. LILLY GROVE Pdf