Category: Dance

By Bengi Atesöz-Dorge

Qu'entend-t-on par écriture chorégraphique ? Dominique Bagouet (1951-1992) a mis l'écriture au provider de l. a. danse. Les lines de l. a. pensée du chorégraphe sont accessibles dans ses notes, dans les vidéos de ses spectacles et répétitions, dans les corps et los angeles mémoire des danseurs, dans le travail de transmission entrepris par les Carnets Bagouet. L'usage de l'espace, du temps et des corps seront analysés à l. a. lumière d'une lecture intime de son oeuvre.Š

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By Benita Brown,Dannabang Kuwabong,Christopher Olsen

Diaspora reports proceed to extend in variety and scope and stay fertile terrain for investigating a number of strategies of delusion construction in dance functionality, background as functionality, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals within the box. equally, study in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural, and literary reports, between others, all have interaction and have middle parts of functionality and delusion in articulating and realizing their fields. This sharing of comparable elements additionally demonstrates the interrelatedness of those fields.

In Myth functionality within the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance, the authors contend that functionality traditions throughout inventive disciplines display a shared—if occasionally varied—journey between diasporic artists to reconnect with their African ancestors. the quantity starts off with a historic and aesthetic evaluation of the way dramatists, choreographers, and function artists have approached the duty of studying African fable. the person chapters demonstrate how particular artists, dramatists, and choreographers have interpreted African fable and what performative methods and traditions they've got used. concentrating on theatre practitioners from the 19th century throughout the current, the authors learn performative traditions from Canada, the USA, the Caribbean, and Latin the US.

Drawing upon learn in theatre, dance, and literary texts, Myth functionality within the African Diasporas may be an important to lecturers attracted to African functionality considered in the course of the prism of delusion making and spiritual/ritualistic stagings. along with these attracted to diasporic reports, this ebook can be worthy to students and scholars of heritage, drama, theatre, and dance.

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By Stavros Stavrou Karayanni

all through centuries of eu colonial domination, the our bodies of center jap dancers, female and male, flow sumptuously and seductively around the pages of Western trip journals, evoking wish and derision, admiration and disdain, attract and revulsion. This profound ambivalence varieties the axis of an research into heart jap dance—an research that extends to modern abdominal dance.

Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, via old research, theoretical research, and private mirrored image, explores how heart japanese dance actively engages race, intercourse, and nationwide identification. shut readings of colonial go back and forth narratives, an exam of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, and analyses of treatises approximately Greek dance, show the difficult ways that this debatable dance has been formed by means of Eurocentric types that outline and keep an eye on identification functionality.

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By Jessika Ferm

Incorporating strategies from ballroom dancing, activities psychology, own improvement, and enterprise administration, this must-read publication bargains recommendations, secrets and techniques, suggestions, and instruments to assist dancers of each point enhance their dancing adventure and competing success—while maximizing the enjoyment of ballroom dancing. Competing Like a professional positive aspects interviews with over 20 most sensible judges, festival organizers, specialist dancers, novice dancers, gown designers, hair stylists, and makeup artists. by no means earlier than have such a lot of specialists shared such a lot of secrets and techniques in a single entire ebook! learn their outstanding good fortune stories—and you’ll be Competing Like a professional in no time!

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By Petri Hoppu,Karen Vedel

Dance has been hooked up to the practices and ideologies that experience formed notions of a Nordic sector for greater than a century and it's ingrained into the tradition and society of the sector. This publication investigates varied dance phenomena that experience both engaged with or dismantled notions of Nordicness. seeking to the movement of dancers and dance kinds among various destinations, organisations and networks of people, its authors speak about social dancing, in addition to historic tactics linked to collaborations in people dance and theatre dance. they think about how similarities and alterations among the Nordic nations will be discerned, for example in styles of reception on the arrival of dance kinds from open air the Nordic nations - and vice versa, how dance from the Nordic nations is obtained in different components of the area, as obvious for instance within the Nordic Cool pageant on the Kennedy Centre in 2013. The publication opens a unprecedented window into Nordic tradition noticeable throughout the prism of dance. whereas it delivers the reader new insights into the serious position of dance within the formation and imagining of a sector, it additionally increases questions about the interaction among dance practices and politics.

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By O. F. Regner

Das 1954 erstmals erschienene ›Ballettbuch‹ von Otto Friedrich Regner gibt Auskunft über die Geschichte der Tanzkunst, verschiedene Stilrichtungen innerhalb und außerhalb Deutschlands, über große Tänzerinnen und Tänzer, Komponisten, Librettisten, Choreographen und bildende Künstler, die für das Ballett gearbeitet haben, sowie über Ballett-Regeln und Fachtermini.
(Dieser textual content bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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By Melissa A. Fitch

Global Tangos: Travels within the Transnational Imaginary argues opposed to the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance can be used that allows you to comprehend ameliorations worldwide that experience taken position because of defining positive factors of globalization: transnationalism and the increase of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural influence of Argentine tango on the earth by means of assembling an strange array of cultural narratives created in nearly thirty international locations, all of which convey how tango has combined and mingled within the international imaginary, occasionally in wildly unforeseen varieties. issues comprise Tango Barbie and Ken, ads for telephone intercourse, the presence of tango in political upheavals within the heart East and in lively eastern children’s tv programming, homosexual tango porn, tango orchestras and composers in global struggle II focus camps, worldwide tango protests aimed toward reclaiming public house, the transformation of Buenos Aires due to tango tourism, and using tango for palliative care and to regard different illnesses. additionally they contain the worldwide improvement of queer tango concept, activism, and fairs. Global Tangos indicates how the increase in social media has heralded a brand new period of political activism, artistry, unity, and engagement on the planet, one during which digital worldwide tango groups have certainly develop into very “real” social and help networks. The textual content engages a few key innovations from modern critics within the fields of tourism experiences, geography, dance reviews, cultural anthropology, literary stories, transnational reviews, tv reviews, feminism, and queer conception. Global Tangos underscores the interconnectedness of cultural id, economics, politics, and tool within the construction, advertising and marketing, distribution, and movement of world pictures relating to tango—and, by means of extension, Latin America—that shuttle the world.

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By Ramsay Burt

Ungoverning Dance examines the paintings of revolutionary modern dance artists in continental Europe from the mid Nineteen Nineties to 2015. putting this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the ebook argues that those artists have constructed an ethico-aesthetic strategy that makes use of dance practices as websites of resistance opposed to dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the patience of different methods of pondering and dwelling. in keeping with the best way that the unconventional values informing their paintings are regularly below assault from neoliberalism, those artists realize that they in impression proportion universal pool assets. therefore, whereas modern dance has been became a marketplace, they however worth the level to which it capabilities as a commons. paintings that does this, it argues, ungoverns dance.

The booklet bargains shut readings of works from the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s via generations of European-based dance artists: that of Jérôme Bel, Jonathan Burrows, los angeles Ribot, and Xavier Le Roy who started exhibiting paintings within the Nineties; and that of artists who emerged within the 2000s together with Fabián Barba, Faustin Linyekula, Ivana Müller, and Nikolina Pristas. subject matters tested contain dance and precarious existence, choreographing friendship, re-performance, the digital in dance, and a dancer's adventure of the Egyptian revolution. Ungoverning Dance proposes new methods of knowing contemporary modern eu dance works by way of making connections with their social, political, and theoretical contexts.

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By JoAnne Tucker,Susan Freeman

Explore new methods of prayer and storytelling via Torah in Motion. JoAnne Tucker and Susan Freeman, either skilled in dance and Judaic reports, inform the recognized tales of the Torah via glossy dance. during this ebook, they clarify how they use dance to interpret Torah and inventive rules to contemplate while doing so. Dance Midrash bargains a brand new and modern type of prayer and expression, uniting either old and young in dance and story.


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