How To Be A Ballet Dancer by Alexandra Cownie

Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

The lens of dance promises a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban adventure. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the US, is a hugely advanced hybrid of ballet, North American sleek dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. in contrast to such a lot dance varieties, técnica used to be created deliberately with executive backing.

Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative)

From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, 15th- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and tourists wrote concerning the “Indian” dances they encountered in the course of the New global. This used to be very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to establish and remove the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the most important indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its eu discovery.

Danses et concepts en Océanie (Portes océanes) (French Edition)

Los angeles danse demeure encore l'une des productions culturelles les plus fortes dans le Pacifique. Loin d'être de simples manifestations folkloriques, les danses océaniennes ont diverses fonctions. Des exemples pris au répertoire kanak pour l. a. Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour los angeles Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer l. a. complexité de ces chorégraphies.

Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea

The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent background. this present day territorial disputes within the area - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it most likely probably the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure beaches.