Choreographing Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choreographing Identities write by Anthony Shay. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Choreographing Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout its history, the United States has become a new home for thousands of immigrants, all of whom have brought their own traditions and expressions of ethnicity. Not least among these customs are folk dances, which over time have become visual representations of cultural identity. Naturally, however, these dances have not existed in a vacuum. They have changed--in part as a response to ever-changing social identities, and in part as a reaction to deliberate manipulations by those within as well as outside of a particular culture. Compiled in great part from the author's own personal dance experience, this volume looks at how various cultures use dance as a visual representation of their identity, and how "traditional" dances change over time. It discusses several "parallel layers" of dance: dances performed at intra-cultural social occasions, dances used for representation or presentation, and folk dance performances. Individual chapters center on various immigrant cultures. Chiefly the work focuses on cultural representation and how it is sometimes manipulated. Key folk dance festivals in the United States and Canada are reviewed. Interviews with dancers, teachers, and others offer a first-hand perspective. An extensive bibliography encompasses concert programs and reviews as well as broader scholarly sources.
Choreographing Difference
Choreographing Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choreographing Difference write by Ann Cooper Albright. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Choreographing Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Choreographies of African Identities
Choreographies of African Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choreographies of African Identities write by Francesca Castaldi. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Choreographies of African Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choreographies of African Identities traces interconnected interpretative frameworks around and about the National Ballet of Senegal. Using the metaphor of a dancing circle Castaldi's arguments cover the full spectrum of performance, from production to circulation and reception. Castaldi first situates the reader in a North American theater, focusing on the relationship between dancers and audiences as that between black performers and white spectators. She then examines the work of the National Ballet in relation to Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude ideology and cultural politics. Finally, the author addresses the circulation of dances in the streets, discotheques, and courtyards of Dakar, drawing attention to women dancers' occupation of the urban landscape.
Choreographing African Identities
Choreographing African Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choreographing African Identities write by Francesca Castaldi. This book was released on 2000. Choreographing African Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Choreographing Copyright
Choreographing Copyright - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choreographing Copyright write by Anthea Kraut. This book was released on 2016. Choreographing Copyright available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choreographing Copyright Provides a historical and cultural analysis of U.S.-based dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. In a series of case studies stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs dancers' efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics.
