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Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance
In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of Diaspora dance genres. Daniel investigates social dances brought to the islands by Europeans and Africans, including quadrilles and drum/dances as well as popular dances that followed, such as Carnival parading, Pan-Caribbean danzas, rumba, merengue, mambo, reggae, and zouk. She reviews sacred dance and closely documents combat dances, such as Martinican ladja, Trinidadian kalinda, and Cuban juego de manÃ. In drawing on scores of performers and consultants from the region as well as on her own professional dance experience and acumen, Daniel adeptly places Caribbean dance in the context of cultural and economic globalization, connecting local practices to transnational and global processes and emphasizing the important role of dance in critical regional tourism. Throughout, Daniel reveals impromptu and long-lasting Diaspora communities of participating dancers and musicians.
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Panic
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
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Rooted Jazz Dance
An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate
historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and
values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were
systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught,
and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has
largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance
practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory,
pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering
and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and
Black American culture.
Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars,
practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United
States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice
in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist
elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness,
including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing
African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the
prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of
the roots. These chapters offer strategies for teaching rooted jazz
dance, examples for changing dance curricula, and artist
perspectives on choreographing and performing jazz. Above all, they
emphasize the importance of centering Africanist and African
American principles, aesthetics, and values.
Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the
history of racism in the United States, these essays challenge a
century of misappropriation and lean into difficult conversations
of reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major
roadblock to racial justice in the dance field by amplifying the
people and culture responsible for the jazz language.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird
American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
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Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out
Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.
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Dancing revolution : bodies, space, and sound in American cultural history
\"Smith's project reconfigures the understanding of public space as a site for symbolic contestation of social and political control by investigating historical moments of participatory vernacular dance. Smith focuses extensively on public venues, such as the street, dance hall, and theater, in order to analyze the ways in which participatory public dance--street dance--functioned as a tool for contesting, constructing, or reinventing social order. Utilizing individual case studies that include, in part, the God-intoxicated public demonstrations of the First Great Awakening; the Creolized antebellum theatrical and festival dance of cities as diverse as New Orleans, Albany, and Bristol; the modernism, primitivism, and racial integration of 20th century African American popular dance; and the social role of dance in contemporary transgressive communities, Smith's project spans centuries, geographies, and cultural identities. Smith contends that highly diverse groups from across a very wide span of political and cultural identities have struck upon street dance as an effective and empowering rhetorical strategy. Smith analyzes the particularly explosive contestation of gender, sexuality, race, class, and community identity that occurs when these participatory public dances occur\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism,Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman \"re-members\" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in performance. These women's songs and dances provide us with a wealth of polyphonic text that records their reflections on identity, imagination, and agency, providing a collective performed autobiography that complements the small body of pre-twentieth-century African and African American women's writing. Gale P. Jackson engages with a range of vibrant traditions to provide windows into multiple discourses as well as \"new\" and old paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, pedagogy, and theory embedded in a lineage of African diaspora performance and to articulate and address the postcolonial fragmentation of humanist thinking. In lyrically interdisciplinary movement, across herstories, geographies, and genres, cultural continuities, improvisation, and transformative action,Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman offers a fresh perspective on familiar material and an expansion of our sources, reading, and vision of African diaspora, African American, and American literatures.
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Shai & Emmie star in dancy pants!
Third-grader Shai, paired with her best friend Emmie and classmate Rio in a major dance competition, makes a bet with her rival, Gabby, and then must push Emmie to win.
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Afro-Mexico
This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.
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