Dancing Across Borders

Author : Charlotte Svendler Nielsen,Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000768770

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Dancing Across Borders by Charlotte Svendler Nielsen,Stephanie Burridge Pdf

Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change and transformation in the lives of young people through dance. Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills- and knowledge-based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world. This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics and interdisciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations.

Author : Norma E. Cantú,Olga Nájera-Ramírez,Brenda M. Romero
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9780252076091

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Dancing Across Borders by Norma E. Cantú,Olga Nájera-Ramírez,Brenda M. Romero Pdf

One of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the border

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:801277297

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Author : Anthony Shay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786437849

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Dancing Across Borders by Anthony Shay Pdf

This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twentieth century and especially since 1950, millions have begun learning and performing various Balkan dances, the tango, and other Latin American dances, along with the classical dances of India, Japan, and Indonesia. Most studies in dance ethnography and anthropology have focused specifically on "dancing in the field," or the dancing that native dancers do. This study, by contrast, examines the ways in which ethnic dancing has allowed many Americans to create more exciting, "exotic" and romantic identities. The author describes the uniquely American enthusiasm for exotic dances, and cites specific deficiencies in the U.S. cultural identity that have led many people to seek new feelings and experiences through exotic dance genres.

Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184082

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Ballet across Borders by Helena Wulff Pdf

This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic. Ballet companies have endeavoured to hide what is going on backstage lest the reality of highly strung nerves, constant fatigue and pain from injuries tarnish the illusion of ethereal figures and seemingly weightless steps in polished performances. But the audience's perceptions of fairy-tale worlds onstage are far removed from the experiences of the dancers themselves. The author, who trained to be a dancer, has been given an entrée to this private world that few outsiders ever see. Books on ballet tend to focus on performance. In contrast, this book, which draws on extensive fieldwork with major companies such as London's Royal Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre in New York, the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Ballett Frankfurt, is about dancers - how their careers are made and unmade and what happens in dance companies offstage. Anyone interested in the culture of ballet or the theatre, as well as students of anthropology, dance, performance and cultural studies, will want to read what really goes on when the curtain comes down.

Author : Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199888986

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When Men Dance by Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay Pdf

When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes.

Author : Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199739462

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When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders by Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay Pdf

While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men dance? When Men Dance offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. A first of its kind, this trenchant look at the stereotypes and realities of male dancing brings together contributions from leading and rising scholars of dance from around the world to explore what happens when men dance. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance worlds to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.

Author : Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054558

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Corporeal Politics by Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox Pdf

In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

Author : Kristin Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Coming out (Sexual orientation)
ISBN : OCLC:224482251

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Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814760291

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Dancing Tango by Kathy Davis Pdf

Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is—and has always been—embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which—when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories—seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the ‘elsewhere.’ Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon.

Author : Pam Musil,Doug Risner,Karen Schupp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030828660

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Dancing Across the Lifespan by Pam Musil,Doug Risner,Karen Schupp Pdf

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance. As a novel collection of diverse authors’ voices, this edited book traverses the human lifespan from early childhood to death as it negotiates a breadth of dance experiences and contexts. The conversations ignited within each chapter invite readers to interrogate current disciplinary attitudes and dominant assumptions and serve as catalysts for changing and evolving long entrenched views among dancers regarding matters of age and aging. The text is organized in three sections, each representing a specific context within which dance exists. Section titles include educational contexts, social and cultural contexts, and artistic contexts. Within these broad categories, each contributor’s milieu of lived experiences illuminate age-related factors and their many intersections. While several contributing authors address and problematize the phenomenon of aging in mid-life and beyond, other authors tackle important issues that impact young dancers and dance professionals.

Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199876112

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Transnational Encounters by Alejandro L. Madrid Pdf

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norte?a, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.

Author : Varsha Bajaj
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780807563649

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Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj Pdf

Finalist 2014 Cybils Award: Middle Grade Fiction 2015 Crystal Kite Winter (Texas/Oklahoma Chapter) Thirteen-year-old Abby discovers that her long-lost father is Bollywood's biggest movie star. She travels to Mumbai to reconnect with the family she never knew. What thirteen-year-old Abby wants most is to meet her father. She just never imagined he would be a huge film star—in Bollywood! Now she's traveling to Mumbai to get to know her famous father. Abby is overwhelmed by the culture clash, the pressures of being the daughter of India's most famous celebrity, and the burden of keeping her identity a secret. But as she learns to navigate her new surroundings, she just might discover where she really belongs.

Author : Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams
Publisher : Decolonizing Feminisms
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0295749555

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Dancing Transnational Feminisms by Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams Pdf

"Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and social justice. Focusing on ADT's creative processes and organizational strategies, the book highlights how women and femme artists of color, working with a marginalized movement aesthetic, claim and transform the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Blending essays with epistolary texts, interviews and poems, the collection's contributors offer up a multigenre exploration of how dance and other artistic undertakings can be intersectionally reimagined. Building on more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues, Dancing Transnational Feminisms delves into timely questions surrounding race and performance, art and politics, global and local inequities and the responsibilities of artists towards the communities they come from"--

Author : Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000440218

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The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific by Stephanie Burridge Pdf

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the South Pacific. Drawing on extensive research and decades of performative experience as artists, choreographers, producers, teachers, and critics, the authors approach issues of dance and cultural diversity from a theoretical perspective while at the same time exploring change, process, and transformation through dance. The book discusses themes such as tradition, contemporization, interdisciplinarity, dance education, youth dance, dance networks, curatorial practices, and evolving performative practices of dance companies and independents. It also looks at regional networking, curating dance festivals and spaces that foster collaboration, regional cooperation, and cultural exchange, which are essential features of dance in Asia and the Pacific. This collection will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.