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Dancing Postcolonialism

Author : Sabine Sörgel
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Postcolonialism written by Sabine Sörgel and published by Transcript Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.

Ghost Dancing with Colonialism

Author : Grace Li Xiu Woo
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774818905
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dancing with Colonialism written by Grace Li Xiu Woo and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in 1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formal recognition accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at that time, Indigenous peoples continue to argue that they are still being colonized. Grace Woo assesses this allegation using a binary model that distinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. She argues that two legal paradigms governed the expansion of the British Empire, one based on popular consent, the other on conquest and the power to command. Ghost Dancing with Colonialism casts explanatory light on ongoing tensions between Canada and Indigenous peoples.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities

Author : Sitara Thobani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315387328
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities by : Sitara Thobani

Download or read book Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities written by Sitara Thobani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the longstanding trasnational linkages between India and the UK. What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? Where and how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? It is argued that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of not only postcolonial South Asian diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies, and Theatre and Performance studies.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities

Author : Sitara Thobani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315387336
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities written by Sitara Thobani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance as an expression of Indian religious and nationalist culture, examining the art form solely in the context of Indian history and culture. In investigating performances of Indian classical dance in the UK it is possible to argue that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of the mutual constitution of not only postcolonial Indian and South Asia diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. This book explores what happens when national cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its construction.

Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision

Author : Marie Battiste
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842474
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision written by Marie Battiste and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision spring from an International Summer Institute held in 1996 on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples. The contributors, primarily Indigenous, unravel the processes of colonization that enfolded modern society and resulted in the oppression of Indigenous peoples.

Cultural Memory and Popular Dance

Author : Clare Parfitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030710831
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Memory and Popular Dance written by Clare Parfitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural memories are shared and transformed by dancing bodies adapting yesterday’s steps to today’s concerns. The book gathers emerging and seasoned scholarly voices from a wide range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives to discuss cultural remembering and forgetting in diverse popular dance contexts. The contributors ask: how are Afro-diasporic memories invoked in popular dance classes? How are popular dance genealogies manipulated and reclaimed? What is at stake for the nation in the nationalizing of folk and popular dances? And how does mediated dancing transmit memory as feelings or affects? The book reveals popular dance to be vital to cultural processes of remembering and forgetting, allowing participants to pivot between alternative pasts, presents and futures.

Dancing Cultures

Author : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455761
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Cultures written by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.

Choreography and Corporeality

Author : Thomas F. DeFrantz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137546530
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Choreography and Corporeality written by Thomas F. DeFrantz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.

Dance and the Body in Western Theatre

Author : Sabine Sörgel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137034890
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Dance and the Body in Western Theatre written by Sabine Sörgel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible as in dance. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the second half of the twentieth century by introducing students to the key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies.

Movements of Interweaving

Author : Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351128442
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Movements of Interweaving written by Gabriele Brandstetter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

Postcolonial London

Author : John McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134286414
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial London written by John McLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside the major postcolonial writers, the book provides analytical study of newer writers who have to date received little critical attention, eg. Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bernardine Evaristo, Fred D'Aguiar Postcolonial studies and contemporary fiction are among the most popular courses at undergraduate level Published to coincide with our major postcolonial studies promotions in 2004, including a full colour postcolonial mini-catalogue mailed to academics worldwide, and inserts at conferences in Canterbury (UK), Frankfurt (Germany) and Hyderabad (India) The book's relevance expands beyond London; the 'city' is a trendy topic in literary and cultural studies and this book uses theories of the metropolis to explore ideas of empire and the nation. uses theories of the metropolis to explore ideas of empire and the nation.

Soviet Postcolonial Studies

Author : Epp Annus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351850563
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Postcolonial Studies written by Epp Annus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing postcolonial theory to this different setting, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and presenting insights and material of relevance to scholars in a wide range of subjects, the book explores topics such as Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, the affective structure of identity-creation in national and imperial subjects, and the way in which cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities were formative of Soviet everyday experience.

Postcolonial Cultures

Author : Simon Featherstone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578067718
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Cultures written by Simon Featherstone and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture

Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France

Author : Kathryn A. Kleppinger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948680
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France written by Kathryn A. Kleppinger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, “Frenchness” and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France.

The Post-colonial Studies Reader

Author : Bill Ashcroft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415345651
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Post-colonial Studies Reader written by Bill Ashcroft and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boasting new extracts from major works in the field, as well as an impressive list of contributors, this second edition of a bestselling Reader is an invaluable introduction to the most seminal texts in post-colonial theory and criticism.

Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre

Author : Ayse Tashkiran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350054488
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre written by Ayse Tashkiran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-pilot, navigating and creating the world of the play.' - Joan Iyiola Movement directors work with the physical, living bodies at the heart of theatre productions, creating movement languages with actors and directors. Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading theatre practitioners, Ayse Tashkiran charts the growth of the movement director in contemporary theatre. The voices of Jane Gibson, Sue Lefton, Kate Flatt, Toby Sedgwick, Siân Williams, Struan Leslie, Ellen Kane, Peter Darling, Steven Hoggett, Ann Yee, Imogen Knight and Shelley Maxwell explore processes of creativity, collaboration and innovation for the moving body in performance. The conversations open up: Growth of movement direction through the 20th century New insights into embodied theatre practice Diverse movement approaches and creative preparation Physical trainings and influences Working methods with directors and actors in the rehearsal room Movement for actors in opera, film, television and musical theatre Relationships between movement direction and theatre choreography Potential future developments in the field

(Post)Socialist Dance

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350408174
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book (Post)Socialist Dance written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world. It traces hidden and invisibilized legacies over the span of one century, probing questions that can make viewers, artists, and scholars uncomfortable regarding dance histories, memories, circulations and production modes in and around the (post)socialist world. The contributions delve into a variety of dance practices (folk, traditional, ballet, modern, contemporary), modes of dance production (institutionalization processes, festival-making and market logics), and dance circulations (between centres and peripheries, between different genres and styles). The main focus is Eastern Europe (including Russia) but the book also addresses Cuba and China. The book's historical examples make the reader aware, too, of the (post)socialist bodies' influence in today's dance, including in contemporary dance scenes. The (post)socialist context promises to be a prosperous laboratory to explore uncomfortable questions of legitimacy. Whose choreographic work is staged as a 'quality' dance production? Which dance practices are worthy of scholarly study? What are the limits of dance studies' understanding of what dance is or should be? In view of reclaiming the Second World through dance, this book thus probes questions that should be asked today but are not easy to answer; questions that dance practitioners, facilitators, critics, and researchers, including ourselves, are often not at ease with either. In doing so, the cracks of dance history begin to be sealed, and neglected dance practices are written back into history, provided with the academic recognition that they deserve.