Dancing Earth

Author : Robin S. Ngangom,Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : 9780143102205

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Dancing Earth by Robin S. Ngangom,Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih Pdf

The poets of North-East India, though belonging to diverse spaces, cultures, languages and religions, share a common bond. It is a sensibility defined by a deep connection with the land; the overarching presence of nature in their lives; the predominance of myths and tribal folklore; and the search for an identity. All this informs their poetry and gives it a unique flavour. Much of the distinctiveness of their work is also the consequence of contemporary events, often marked by violence. Like its title poem The Dancing Earth , the anthology too, is a celebration of this life, in all its unpredictable variety, richness and contradictions. So while Thangjam Ibopishak writes I Want to be Killed By an Indian Bullet and Chandrakanta Murasingh speaks of a minister with neither inside nor outside , there are also Temsula Ao s poems about her stone-people ancestors; Mamang Dai s portraits of swift rivers and primeval forests; and the Shillong poets with their mist-shrouded pine slopes, red cherries and gridlocked streets.

Author : Johanna Leseho,Sandra McMaster
Publisher : Findhorn Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844093847

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Dancing on the Earth by Johanna Leseho,Sandra McMaster Pdf

The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therapy can be both empowering and exhilarating. The women’s narratives all share a deep appreciation for the connection between mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions, offering dance as a transformative power of renewing and rebuilding that bond. Both personal and professional, the stories weave a vivid tapestry of lived experiences and insights, balance, and a community healed by dance.

Author : Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030439125

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Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance by Ananya Chatterjea Pdf

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of “tradition” and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different “global stage,” the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice. Winner of the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research

Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452967950

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Dancing Indigenous Worlds by Jacqueline Shea Murphy Pdf

The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she shows how dance artists communicate Indigenous ways of being, as well as generate a political force, engaging Indigenous understandings and histories. Following specific dance works over time, Shea Murphy interweaves analysis, personal narrative, and written contributions from multiple dance artists, demonstrating dance’s crucial work in asserting and enacting Indigenous worldviews and the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples. As Shea Murphy asserts, these dance-making practices can not only disrupt the structures that European colonization feeds upon and strives to maintain, but they can also recalibrate contemporary dance. Based on more than twenty years of relationship building and research, Shea Murphy’s work contributes to growing, and largely underreported, discourses on decolonizing dance studies, and the geopolitical, gendered, racial, and relational meanings that dance theorizes and negotiates. She also includes discussions about the ethics of writing about Indigenous knowledge and peoples as a non-Indigenous scholar, and models approaches for doing so within structures of ongoing reciprocal, respectful, responsible action.

Author : Charles Travis,Deborah P. Dixon,Luke Bergmann,Robert Legg,Arlene Crampsie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000635843

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Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities by Charles Travis,Deborah P. Dixon,Luke Bergmann,Robert Legg,Arlene Crampsie Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields. Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences. This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.

Author : Carolyn Ownbey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031473128

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Pandemic Play by Carolyn Ownbey Pdf

Author : Rebekah J. Kowal,Gerald Siegmund,Randy Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199928187

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics by Rebekah J. Kowal,Gerald Siegmund,Randy Martin Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics presents cutting edge research investigating not only how dance achieves its politics, but also how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance.

Author : Your Brother
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781434340023

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Earth Mother Our Womb of Life by Your Brother Pdf

We live in a prophetic time. The interpretation of sacred texts, private revelations, and numerous prophecies, all point to our current period as the time of a great world transformation. The dreams and visions of some holy men, and the prophetic signs now in the world, made it clear to them that the end-cycle of our World-Age had returned. To help prepare us for this period, holy men from across the Earth have begun restoring the ancient knowledge preserved by their peoples. The knowledge in this book restores the hallowed truths of our Mother Earth and our deep-rooted connections to Her, and prepares us for what some people call Purification Time, when knowledge of our Earth Mother and the process progressing us within our Sun System are needed and returned to us. It's time to reawaken to how our highest destinies are tied to our living Mother Earth, and to the design in Nature carrying our world to the Paradise spoken of in prophecy down through time. The information being restored prepares us for the unexpected events and fateful choices which will soon arise for each of us. It also provides us a key to understanding the meaning of many myths, legends, and world mysteries, all of which connect with the end of our Age, and the coming of the "new heaven" upon the Earth. Some of the subjects discussed in the book include: Mother Earth and Her Sacred Heart-Womb The Holy Way we Belong to the Earth The incarnate Earth Heart/Christos The Earth's Birth Pains and Hidden Egg Earth become Heaven the Morning Star Creation and Evolution as One Process The Danger of the Forbidden Time Structure Preparing for the changes unto Heaven

Author : Blawyn And Jones
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8122300626

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Chakra Workout by Blawyn And Jones Pdf

Chakra workouts have come to be acknowledged as time-tested techniques of rejuvenation. The authors have presented a beginner`s guide to initiate you into the process. The book beautifully blends the yoga, Sufism and Taoism traditions to help you to learn the ancient techniques of rejuvenation.

Author : Joëlle Rostkowski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438441764

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Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans by Joëlle Rostkowski Pdf

In these lively and informative interviews, noted ethnohistorian and international consultant Joëlle Rostkowski brings to light major developments in the Native American experience over the last thirty years. Overcoming hardships they have experienced as the "forgotten" minority, often torn between two cultures, these prominent native writers, artists, journalists, activists, lawyers, and museum administrators each have made remarkable contributions towards the transformation of old stereotypes, the fight against discrimination, and the sharing of their heritage with mainstream society. Theirs is a story not so much of success but of resilience, of survivance, with each interview subject having marked their time and eventually becoming the change they wanted in the world. The conversations in this volume reveal that the assertion of ethnic identity does not lead to bitterness and isolation, but rather an enthusiasm and drive toward greater visibility and recognition that at the same time aims at a greater understanding between different cultures. Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans rewards the reader with a deeper understanding of the Native American Renaissance.

Author : Shay Welch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030049362

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The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System by Shay Welch Pdf

This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance is regarded both as an integral cultural conduit and “a doorway to a powerful wisdom,” Shay Welch argues that dance and dancing can both create and communicate knowledge. She explains that dance—as a form of oral, narrative storytelling—has the power to communicate knowledge of beliefs and histories, and that dance is a form of embodied narrative storytelling. Welch provides analytic clarity on how this happens, what conditions are required for it to succeed, and how dance can satisfy the relational and ethical facets of Native epistemology.

Author : Daniela Gioseffi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0811721167

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Earth Dancing, Mother Nature's Oldest Rite by Daniela Gioseffi Pdf

Author : Melanie Bales,Karen Eliot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199940004

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Dance on Its Own Terms by Melanie Bales,Karen Eliot Pdf

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplines outside dance. Individual chapters serve as case studies that are further organized into three categories of significant dance activity: performance and reconstruction, pedagogy and choreographic process, and notational and other written forms that analyze and document dance. The breadth of the content reflects the richness and vibrancy of the dance field; each deeply informed examination serves as a window opening onto the larger world of dance. Conceptually, each chapter also raises concerns and questions that point to broadly inclusive methodological applications. Engaging and insightful, Dance on its Own Terms represents a major contribution to research on dance.

Author : Dustin Lalkulhpuia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527530713

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Kokborok Literature from Tripura by Dustin Lalkulhpuia Pdf

This illuminating study delves into the cultural identity and traditions of the Borok tribe, an indigenous community in Tripura, India, through an in-depth examination of selected Kokborok folktales and contemporary poetry and fiction. The author sheds light on how these writers draw on their cultural myths, folklore, and everyday experiences to challenge mainstream literature’s stereotypes and reclaim their cultural heritage. By analysing these works, the book uncovers the Borok tribe’s historical context, which has been shaped by cultural domination and military struggles for identity preservation. Through a focus on themes of rootedness, cultural loss, and oral tradition, the author offers an insightful analysis of the tribe’s little-known narratives, bringing attention to the continuous suffering of its people amidst socio-economic and political problems. This work offers a significant contribution to understanding the cultural traditions and identity of the Borok tribe in Tripura.

Author : Melissa Blanco Borelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199897834

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen by Melissa Blanco Borelli Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen sets the agenda for the study of dance in popular moving images - films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and YouTube - and offers new ways to understand the multi-layered meanings of the dancing body by engaging with methodologies from critical dance studies, performance studies, and film/media analysis. Through thorough engagement with these approaches, the chapters demonstrate how dance on the popular screen might be read and considered through bodies and choreographies in moving media. Questions the contributors consider include: How do dance and choreography function within the filmic apparatus? What types of bodies are associated with specific dances and how does this affect how dance(s) is/are perceived in the everyday? How do the dancing bodies on screen negotiate power, access, and agency? How are multiple choreographies of identity (e.g., race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation) set in motion through the narrative, dancing bodies, and/or dance style? What types of corporeal labors (dance training, choreographic skill, rehearsal, the constructed notion of "natural talent") are represented or ignored? What role does a specific film have in the genealogy of Hollywood dance film? How does the Hollywood dance film inform how dance operates in making cultural meanings? Whether looking at Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's tap steps in Stormy Weather, or Baby's leap into Johnny Castle's arms in Dirty Dancing, or even Neo's backwards bend in The Matrix, the book's arguments offer powerful new scholarship on dance in the popular screen.