The Thinking Body: A Study of the Balancing Forces of by Mable Ellsworth Todd,E. G. Bracket

Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

The lens of dance provides a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban adventure. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the USA, is a hugely developed hybrid of ballet, North American sleek dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. not like so much dance types, 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 during the New global. This was once very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try and determine and remove the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the biggest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its ecu 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 l. a. Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour l. a. Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer los angeles 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 zone - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it in all probability probably the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure beaches.