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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography
Renaissance dance treatises claim that the dance is a language but do not explain how or what dancing communicates. Since the body is the instrument of this hypothetical language, The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau’s definition of dance as a mute rhetoric in Orchésographie . This book shows that the oratorical model for Arbeau’s definition of the dance is epideictic and that although one cannot equate dance and oratorical action, the ends of oratorical action are those of dance: persuasion through charm and emotion.
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Basses danses dites de Marguerite d'Autriche (Ms. 9085 aus dem Besitz der Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles) : vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift
This is a facsimile reproduction of a rare fifteenth-century source for the bassedanse, a Burgundian court dance. Known as Brussels manuscript 9085, it consists of twenty-five parchment leaves on black paper with gold rules and calligraphic initials in silver. Seventeen folios contain specific music and choreographies in the earliest known dance notation.
Textiles in Motion
An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ancient cultures and civilisations.Dress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people together or opposes them. It is a communicative tool that gives crucial information for understanding the dance as well as the culture and the sociological effects of a group of people. As such, dress transcends how it is seen visually to address what is being communicated. Nonetheless, studies in ancient dance have rarely taken clothing into consideration.Therefore, this publication gathers articles that give new perspectives and insights on ancient dances and their ancient textiles. Comprehension of ancient dance benefits from investigations undertaken through the lens of dress. And research on ancient dress is understood through its relation to body movement and performative rituals, thus reinforcing the progressive integration of an anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of ancient textiles. For the first time, the two-way transfer of knowledge between dance studies and costume studies is connected via an innovative approach. Among the issues that are specifically addressed are the movement design of dress for dance, its sensory experience, gender and identity, reenactment and reception.The chronological range of the publication is limited to the ancient world (3rd millennium BC to 5th century AD), and the geographical definition is meant to be broad in order to promote a comparative approach and cross-cultural dialogue, as well as discourse between fields and disciplines.
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Freestyle
\"While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew and his new friend as pressure mounts from all sides\"-- Provided by publisher
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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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Fresh fly fabulous : 50 years of hip hop style
\"Fresh Fly Fabulous is the definitive source for hip hop style, brought to life by the groundbreaking photographers who captured it firsthand, including Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, and Ernie Paniccioli.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dancing the New World
From Christopher Columbus to \"first anthropologist\" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the \"Indian\" dances they encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented native dances in an attempt to identify and eradicate the \"idolatrous\" behaviors of the Aztec, the largest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica at the time of its European discovery.
Dancing the New Worldtraces the transformation of the Aztec empire into a Spanish colony through written and visual representations of dance in colonial discourse-the vast constellation of chronicles, histories, letters, and travel books by Europeans in and about the New World. Scolieri analyzes how the chroniclers used the Indian dancing body to represent their own experiences of wonder and terror in the New World, as well as to justify, lament, and/or deny their role in its political, spiritual, and physical conquest. He also reveals that Spaniards and Aztecs shared an understanding that dance played an important role in the formation, maintenance, and representation of imperial power, and describes how Spaniards compelled Indians to perform dances that dramatized their own conquest, thereby transforming them into colonial subjects. Scolieri's pathfinding analysis of the vast colonial \"dance archive\" conclusively demonstrates that dance played a crucial role in one of the defining moments in modern history-the European colonization of the Americas.
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Jessi's secret language
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Shaping Dance Canons
Examining a century of dance criticism in the United
States and its influence on aesthetics and inclusion
Dance criticism has long been integral to dance as an art form,
serving as documentation and validation of dance performances, yet
few studies have taken a close look at the impact of key critics
and approaches to criticism over time. The first book to examine
dance criticism in the United States across 100 years, from the
late 1920s to the early twenty-first century, Shaping Dance
Canons argues that critics in the popular press have
influenced how dance has been defined and valued, as well as which
artists and dance forms have been taken most seriously.
Kate Mattingly likens the effect of dance writing to that of a
flashlight, illuminating certain aesthetics at the expense of
others. Mattingly shows how criticism can preserve and reproduce
criteria for what qualifies as high art through generations of
writers and in dance history courses, textbooks, and curricular
design. She examines the gatekeeping role of prominent critics such
as John Martin and Yvonne Rainer while highlighting the
often-overlooked perspectives of writers from minoritized
backgrounds and dance traditions. The book also includes an
analysis of digital platforms and current dance projects-On the
Boards TV, thINKingDANCE , Black Dance Stories, and amara
tabor-smith's House/Full of BlackWomen -that challenge
systemic exclusions. In doing so, the book calls for ongoing
dialogue and action to make dance criticism more equitable and
inclusive.
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