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Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

The lens of dance gives you a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban event. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the United States, is a hugely advanced hybrid of ballet, North American glossy dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. in contrast to so much dance varieties, técnica was once created deliberately with govt 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 through the New international. This used to be very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to establish and eliminate 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)

L. a. 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 los angeles Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour l. a. 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 heritage. this present day territorial disputes within the zone - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it probably essentially the most risky issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure beaches.