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It Could Lead to Dancing
Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues
for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any
reader of Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace , or
Romeo and Juliet can attest. The popularity of social
dance transcends class, gender, ethnic, and national boundaries. In
the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture,
dance offers crucial insights into debates about emancipation and
acculturation. While traditional Jewish law prohibits men and women
from dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex dancing was understood as
the very sign of modernity--and the ultimate boundary
transgression.
Writers of modern Jewish literature deployed dance scenes as a
charged and complex arena for understanding the limits of
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic mixing, and the implications
of shifting gender norms and marriage patterns, while
simultaneously entertaining their readers. In this pioneering
study, Sonia Gollance examines the specific literary qualities of
dance scenes, while also paying close attention to the broader
social implications of Jewish engagement with dance. Combining
cultural history with literary analysis and drawing connections to
contemporary representations of Jewish social dance, Gollance
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing functions as a flexible metaphor
for the concerns of Jewish communities in the face of cultural
transitions.
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Dance and modernism in Irish and German literature and culture : connections in motion
\"This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture since the 1920s\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Effacing Rebellion and Righting the Slanted: Declassifying the Archive of MacMillan's (1965) and Shakespeare's (1597) Romeo and Juliets
Archival evidence of Shakespeare's and Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliets evince patriarchal efforts to efface female rebellion. As Juliet, Lynn Seymour declassifies ballet through recalcitrant stillness and off-balance choreography. Patriarchal institutions enlisted Margot Fonteyn's classifying instinct to efface these balletic transgressions from the archive utilizing strategies corresponding to early modern textual editing practices.
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Dancing out of Line
Dancing out of Linetransports readers back to the 1840s, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form.By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such asJane Eyre, Bleak House,andDaniel Deronda,Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian practices that up to this time have gone unnoticed in critical circles. She analyzes the role of the illustrious dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society, despite his position as a social outsider of nebulous origins. She describes how the daughters of the social elite were expected to \"come out\" to society in the ballroom, the most potent space in the cultural imagination for licentious behavior and temptation. These incongruities generated new, progressive ideas about the body, subjectivity, sexuality, and health.Engelhardt challenges our assumptions about Victorian sensibilities and attitudes toward the sexual/social roles of men and women by bringing together historical voices from various fields to demonstrate the versatility of the dance, not only as a social practice but also as a forum for Victorians to engage in debate about the body and its pleasures and pathologies.
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Electronic dance music DJs
Profiles the lives and careers of six of the best-selling DJs in the world.
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Gesture, Repertoire, and Emotion: Yiddish Dance Practice in German and Yiddish Literature
Dance plays an important role in Jewish culture, yet it is frequently relegated to the margins of eastern European Jewish performing-arts research. Folk dance documentation is difficult in the best of circumstances, and Yiddish dance poses a particular challenge due to a lack of continuity in its cultural transmission. At the same time, memoirs and literary texts contain many dance descriptions that are designed to entertain readers and inform them about the lives of Yiddish-speaking Jews. This article builds upon literary dance-studies methodologies to make a case for using literary texts in Yiddish dance scholarship. Dance descriptions in works of fiction can help us gain a greater understanding both of the cultural practice of Yiddish dance and the significance of Jewish dance in literature and popular culture. This article pays particular attention to the ways German and Yiddish literary texts depict repertoire, gesture, emotion, and traditional women's dance style.
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