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Moving History: Dancing Cultures

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moving history / dancing cultures A DANCE JSUIES ADCO) IRONE AN SID), 1k ‘Wesleyan University Press © 2001 Wesleyan University Press All rights reserved sw 0-8195-6912-5 cloth ISM 0-8195-6415-3 paper Printed in the United States of America Design & composition by Chris Crochetire, 'B, Williams & Associates, Durham, North Carolina Title page phoro: Ruth St. Denis in Radhe (1906). Reprinted courtesy of the Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. s4 ‘cur data and permissions appear atthe end of the book contents List of Illustrations x ‘Ann Dils and ‘Ann Cooper Albright PART Ann Dils and ‘Ann Cooper Albright Deborah Jowist Joan Acocella Millicent Hodson Deidre Sklar Joann Kealiinohomoku Ramsay Burt ‘Ann Cooper Albright Sally Ann Ness kinking about Dance Histor Fit Steps: Moving into the Seudy of Dance History xii Theories and Practices The Pleasures of Studying Dance History > Beyond Description: Writing beneath the Surface 7 Imagining Dance 12 Searching for Nijinskys Sacre 17 Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance 30 An Anthropolegist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance 33 The Trouble with the Male Dancer... 44 Serategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance 56 Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory 67 Further Readings 87 PART 1—World Dance Traditions ‘Ann Dils and ‘Ann Cooper Albright Erika Bourgignon ‘Avanthi Medusi Lisa Doolittle and. Heather Elton Shawna Helland Karin van Nicuwkerk Kariamu Welsh Asante ZS. Strother Barbara Browning Lee Kyong-hee Judy Van Zile Looking at World Dance 92 Trance and Ecstatic Dance 97 Bharacha Natyam—What Are You? 103 Medicine ofthe Brave: A Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Guleure from the Bufo Days to the Modern Powwow 114 The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritua! to Cabaret Performance 28 (Changing Images and Shifting Idenitis: Female Performers in Egypt 136 Commonalties in Afpican Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation 44 Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts 152 Headspin: Capocints Ironic Inversions 165 Epitome of Korean Folk Dance 174 The Many Faces of Korean Dance 178

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