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Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance

Author : Jill Flanders Crosby
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683403797
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance written by Jill Flanders Crosby and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continents Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the transatlantic slave trade. The volume draws on two decades of research in four communities: Dzodze, Ghana; Adjodogou, Togo; and Perico and Agramonte, Cuba. In the ceremonies, oral narratives, and daily lives of individuals at each fieldsite, the authors not only identify shared attributes in religious expression across continents, but also reveal lasting emotional, spiritual, and personal impacts in the communities whose ancestors were ripped from their homeland and enslaved. The authors layer historiographic data, interviews, and fieldnotes with artistic modes such as true fiction, memoir, and choreographed narrative, challenging the conventional nature of scholarship with insights gained from sensorial experience. Including reflections on the making of an art installation based on this research project, the volume challenges readers to imagine the potential of approaching fieldwork as artists. The authors argue that creative methods can convey truths deeper than facts, pointing to new possibilities for collaboration between scientists and artists with relevance to any discipline. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance

Author : Jill Flanders Crosby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781683402954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance written by Jill Flanders Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, 'Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance' explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arara of Cuba.

Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities

Author : Amanda Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783202898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities written by Amanda Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred Dance

Author : William Oscar Emil Oesterley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Dance written by William Oscar Emil Oesterley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred Dance

Author : William Oscar Emil Oesterley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Dance written by William Oscar Emil Oesterley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred Dance

Author : W. O. E. Oesterley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316601633
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Dance written by W. O. E. Oesterley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this book presents a discussion of 'the part played by the Sacred Dance among the peoples of antiquity'. Chapters include 'The origin and purposes of the sacred dance', 'Dances in celebration of victory' and 'The sacred dance as a marriage rite'. The text was written by the well-known theologian and biblical scholar W. O. E. Oesterley (1866-1950). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on anthropology and religion.

Rooted Jazz Dance

Author : Lindsay Guarino
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072115
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Rooted Jazz Dance written by Lindsay Guarino and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education 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. Contributors: LaTasha Barnes | Lindsay Guarino | Natasha Powell | Carlos R.A. Jones | Rubim de Toledo | Kim Fuller | Wendy Oliver | Joanne Baker | Karen Clemente | Vicki Adams Willis | Julie Kerr-Berry | Pat Taylor | Cory Bowles | Melanie George | Paula J Peters | Patricia Cohen | Brandi Coleman | Kimberley Cooper | Monique Marie Haley | Jamie Freeman Cormack | Adrienne Hawkins | Karen Hubbard | Lynnette Young Overby | Jessie Metcalf McCullough | E. Moncell Durden Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

SACRED DANCE

Author : WILLIAM O. E. OESTERLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033846940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book SACRED DANCE written by WILLIAM O. E. OESTERLEY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance

Author : Iris J. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550547
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance written by Iris J. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today • The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance • Investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship, and reveals how dance is once again being brought into spiritual practices • Includes resources for further instruction in sacred dance Today we primarily think of dance as a form of entertainment or as a way to exercise or socialize. There was a time, however, when dance was considered the way to commune with the divine, a part of life's journey, celebrating the seasons and rhythms of the year and the rhythms of our lives. Dance is a language that reunites the body, mind, and soul. While the role of women's sacred dance was most valued in goddess-worshipping cultures where women served as priestesses and healers, dance was once an integral part of religious ritual and ceremonial expression in cultures all over the world, including Judaism and Christianity. In this book the author investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship and reveals how dance is once again being integrated into spiritual practices. Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance is the first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance. It describes sacred circles, birth rituals, ecstatic dances, and dances of loss and grief (in groups and individually) that allow women to integrate the movements of faith, healing, and power into their daily life.

Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900453279X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, Lupinacci, Happel-Parkins, and Turner share diverse approaches, ideas, and strategies from teacher educators who address the need for teachers to recognize and understand the deeply rooted connections between unjust human suffering and environmental degradation.

Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance

Author : Sidra Lawrence
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250637
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance written by Sidra Lawrence and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings. Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political. Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

Onstage with Martha Graham

Author : Stuart Hodes
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065445
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Onstage with Martha Graham written by Stuart Hodes and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance. His memoir is a rare firsthand view of the dance world in the 1940s and through the end of the twentieth century. One of the few male dancers in Graham’s company—and in the New York dance scene at the time—Hodes offers a unique perspective and a one-of-a-kind narrative. He describes how he fell into the art by chance, happening to walk into Graham’s studio one day. He was soon hooked. He documents his experiences, travels, passions, and loves while learning from and performing with Graham, during which time he saw most of the United States, much of Europe, and some of Asia. Advancing quickly, he eventually danced as Graham’s partner in Appalachian Spring, Deaths and Entrances, Every Soul Is a Circus, and Errand into the Maze. In his portrait of Martha Graham, who was the center of his dancing world, Hodes recounts conversations, revelations, bouts of temper and creativity, the daily ritual of deeply physical dancing, and the never-ending search for artistic validity. Direct, often humorous, and always authentic, Hodes shares his delight in dance as both hard work and a fantastic adventure.

Dancing with Merce Cunningham

Author : Marianne Preger-Simon
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063620
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Merce Cunningham written by Marianne Preger-Simon and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer’s lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time. Marianne Preger-Simon’s story opens amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed World War II. While immersed in the vibrant arts scene of postwar Paris during a college year abroad, Preger-Simon was so struck by Merce Cunningham’s unconventional dance style that she joined his classes in New York. She soon became an important member of his brand new dance troupe—and a constant friend. Through her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Preger-Simon offers a rare account of exactly how Cunningham taught and interacted with his students. She describes the puzzled reactions of audiences to the novel non-narrative choreography of the company’s debut performances. She touches on Cunningham’s quicksilver temperament—lamenting his early frustrations with obscurity and the discomfort she suspects he endured in concealing his homosexuality and partnership with composer John Cage—yet she celebrates above all his dependable charm, kindness, and engagement. She also portrays the comradery among the company’s dancers, designers, and musicians, many of whom—including Cage, David Tudor, and Carolyn Brown—would become integral to the avant-garde arts movement, as she tells tales of their adventures touring in a VW Microbus across the United States. Finally, reflecting on her connection with Cunningham throughout the latter part of his career, Preger-Simon recalls warm moments that nurtured their enduring bond after she left the dance company and, later, New York. Interspersed with her letters to friends and family, journal entries, and correspondence from Cunningham himself, Preger-Simon’s memoir is an intimate look at one of the most influential companies in modern American dance and the brilliance of its visionary leader.

The Sacred Dance

Author : William O. E. Oesterley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266534068
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Dance written by William O. E. Oesterley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sacred Dance: A Study in Comparative Folklore The subject is more complicated than would appear at first sight; for while the fact of its universal prevalence among all races at one time or another of their cultural development shows how essential a rite it was, its origin is obviously veiled in obscurity seeing that it developed in pre-historic times. So that in seeking to throw light on the question of its origin one has to try to get at the back of the mind of the savage, and envisage things from his point of view; but that mind represents a complex of such crass and illogical elements that one may easily be led astray. The purpose of the Sacred Dance, again, presents us with another set of problems; for while in some cases this is clear enough, in others there are alternatives which suggest themselves; and, further, it is probable that a variety of motives not infrequently prompted its performance. To disentangle these is not always easy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

Author : Martha Ullman West
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065844
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet written by Martha Ullman West and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed. Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine Littlefield, Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just as responsible for the direction of American ballet as the legendary George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The stories of Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also demonstrate that the flowering of American ballet was not simply a New York phenomenon. West includes little-known details about how Bolender and Reed laid the foundations for Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet in the 1970s and how Bolender transformed the Kansas City Ballet into a highly respected professional company soon after. Passionate in their desire to dance and create dances, Bolender and Reed committed their lives to passing along their hard-won knowledge, training, and work. This book celebrates two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the establishment of ballet in America from one coast to the other.

Dancing on the Earth

Author : Johanna Leseho
Publisher : Findhorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1844094847
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Dancing on the Earth written by Johanna Leseho and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therapy can be both empowering and exhilarating. The women’s narratives all share a deep appreciation for the connection between mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions, offering dance as a transformative power of renewing and rebuilding that bond. Both personal and professional, the stories weave a vivid tapestry of lived experiences and insights, balance, and a community healed by dance.

Sacred Dance in the Ancient World

Author : W. O. E. Oesterley
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486424941
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Dance in the Ancient World written by W. O. E. Oesterley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1923 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Widely practiced in ancient times during such major events of life as initiations, puberty, marriage, and burial, sacred dances frequently served as emotional outlets for the performers. They were also a means of communicating with deities or the dead, securing a good harvest, and an integral part of many other rites and ceremonies important to man in ages past." --BOOK JACKET.