World Dance Cultures

Author : Patricia Leigh Beaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317441069

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World Dance Cultures by Patricia Leigh Beaman Pdf

From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts, taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, Turkey, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including: Case Studies – zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural, historical, and religious contexts ‘Explorations’ – first-hand descriptions of dances, from scholars, anthropologists and practitioners ‘Think About’ – provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood Discussion Questions – starting points for group work, classroom seminars or individual study Further Study Tips – listing essential books, essays and video material. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos, World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike.

Author : Patricia Leigh Beaman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000956122

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World Dance Cultures by Patricia Leigh Beaman Pdf

From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai‘i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, Türkiye, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean, with this second edition adding new chapters on the Pacific Islands, Southern Africa, France, and Cuba. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including: • Spotlights zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural, historical, and religious contexts • Explorations—first-hand descriptions by famous dancers and ethnographers, excerpts from anthropological fieldwork, or historical writings on the form • Think About—provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood • Discussion Questions—starting points for group work, classroom seminars, or individual study. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos, World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike.

Author : Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9781492572329

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Dance Cultures Around the World by Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang Pdf

"Textbook for undergrad general education and dance courses on the topic of dance around the world. It serves as a gateway into studying world cultures through dance"--

Author : Ann Dils,Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819574251

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Moving History/Dancing Cultures by Ann Dils,Ann Cooper Albright Pdf

This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history field through the creation of a multifaceted, non-linear, yet well-structured and comprehensive survey of select moments in the development of both American and World dance. This book is illustrated with over 50 photographs, and would make an ideal text for undergraduate classes in dance ethnography, criticism or appreciation, as well as dance history—particularly those with a cross-cultural, contemporary, or an American focus. The reader is organized into four thematic sections which allow for varied and individualized course use: Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices, World Dance Traditions, America Dancing, and Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. The editors have structured the readings with the understanding that contemporary theory has thoroughly questioned the discursive construction of history and the resultant canonization of certain dances, texts and points of view. The historical readings are presented in a way that encourages thoughtful analysis and allows the opportunity for critical engagement with the text. Ebook Edition Note: Ebook edition note: Five essays have been redacted, including “The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance,” by Shawna Helland; “Epitome of Korean Folk Dance”, by Lee Kyong-Hee; “Juba and American Minstrelsy,” by Marian Hannah Winter; “The Natural Body,” by Ann Daly; and “Butoh: ‘Twenty Years Ago We Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad’,”by Bonnie Sue Stein. Eleven of the 41 illustrations in the book have also been redacted.

Author : Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene,Kathleen A. Spanos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000927009

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Dancing in the World by Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene,Kathleen A. Spanos Pdf

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in diverse dance cultures to navigate academia and the professional dance field. The framework is based on the idea of "cultural confluences," conjuring up an image of bodies of water meeting and flowing into and past one another, migrating through what the authors refer to as the mainstream and non-mainstream. These streams are fluid categories that are associated with power, privilege, and the ability (or inability) to absorb other cultural forms in shared dance spaces. In reflective interludes and dialogues, Emoghene and Spanos consider the effects of migration on their own individual experiences in dance to understand what it means to carry culture through the body in various spaces. Through an analysis of language, aesthetic values, spaces, creative processes, and archival research practices, the book offers a collaborative model for communicating the value that marginalized dance communities bring to the field. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and arts administrators in dance.

Author : David Akombo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476622699

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The Unity of Music and Dance in World Cultures by David Akombo Pdf

This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found in every culture. To some, music means sound and body movement. To others, dance means body movement and sound. The author examines the complementary connection between sound and movement as an element of the human experience as old as humanity itself. Music and dance from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the South Pacific are discussed.

Author : James Nott,Klaus Nathaus
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526156242

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Worlds of social dancing by James Nott,Klaus Nathaus Pdf

By the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at dance as a ‘social world’, the book explores the social and personal relationships established in encounters on dance floors on all continents. It also acknowledges the impact of radio and (sound) film as well as the contribution of dance teachers, musicians and other entertainment professionals to the making of the new dance culture.

Author : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach,Jonathan Skinner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857455765

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Dancing Cultures by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach,Jonathan Skinner Pdf

Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.

Author : Jonathan S. Marion
Publisher : Berg
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845208004

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Ballroom by Jonathan S. Marion Pdf

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender, and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress, and the body. the book presents the author's experiences at a range of international dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers. Ballroom shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. For students of anthropology, dance, cultural, and performance studies, this book provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.

Author : Pegge Vissicaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524924458

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Studying Dance Cultures Around the World by Pegge Vissicaro Pdf

Author : Andree Grau,Stephanie Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134696536

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Europe Dancing by Andree Grau,Stephanie Jordan Pdf

Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance scholars. The contributors chart the art form, and discuss the outside influences which have shaped it. This comprehensive book explores: * questions of identity within individual countries, within Europe, and in relation to the USA * the East/West cultural division * the development of state subsidy for dance * the rise of contemporary dance as an 'alternative' genre * the implications for dance of political, economic and social change. Useful historical charts are included to trace significant dance and political events throughout the twentieth century in each country. Never before has this information been gathered together in one place. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in dance and its growth and development in recent years.

Author : Melissa Reve,Toni Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : 1925547000

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Dance Around the World by Melissa Reve,Toni Jane Pdf

Let's find out how people all around the world use dance to express themselves and to celebrate the ceremonies and festivals of their cultures.

Author : Nanako Nakajima,Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315515328

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The Aging Body in Dance by Nanako Nakajima,Gabriele Brandstetter Pdf

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility. Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of choreographers, dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s, where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage. The first cross-cultural study of its kind, The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population.

Author : Mezdulene Bliss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Belly dance
ISBN : 150016089X

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The Soul of Belly Dance by Mezdulene Bliss Pdf

Welcome to the world of Belly Dance. If you are already a dancer, you were drawn to the dance by something, exercise, costuming, a desire to perform or just something you did on a whim. For whatever reason you started dancing, there is something deeper that keeps you dancing. This is 'the soul of belly dance.' It's this deeper aspect of the dance, the history, the culture the feeling inside of us, that seems to get into our blood like a sacred calling that we've answered and continue to honor. It's an unseen force of women dancing throughout the ages and throughout the world, the knowing that we are connected in a time and space continuum to our sister dancers. It's about a dance that has traveled through time from the ancient to the present, changing and morphing, never limited or bound by societal constraints. In this book, some of the top names in the field of belly dance, as it's called in the United States, share their research and their experiences, making this manuscript a rich and unique resource for anyone who wants to know more about this beautiful art form.

Author : Linda Claire
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781425856144

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Art and Culture: Dancing Around the World: Comparing Groups by Linda Claire Pdf

Compare traditional dance costumes from Cuba, Ireland, Japan, and Nigeria! Early readers will learn inequalities and how to compare groups and numbers with this Spanish book for kids. With bright images and simple text, this full-color book develops students' math and reading skills. The Math Talk questions build fluency and comprehension of basic math concepts. Perfect for shared or guided reading, this nonfiction kids book is ideal for kindergarten and ages 4-6.