Transmigratory moves : dance in global circulation : conference proceedings, Congress on Research in Dance, October 26-28, 2001 / [edited by] Janice LaPointe-Crump.
This year's conference explores the ways in which dance forms circulate across communities, regions and nations, acquiring new meanings as they travel. While the term "globalization" has gained currency in scholarly debates of recent years, the dispersion of performance practices is h...
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| Language: | English |
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Congress on Research in Dance,
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| Summary: | This year's conference explores the ways in which dance forms circulate across communities, regions and nations, acquiring new meanings as they travel. While the term "globalization" has gained currency in scholarly debates of recent years, the dispersion of performance practices is hardly a new phenomenon. Thus, the conference includes both historical and contemporary analyses of dances' migrations. What happens when dances migrate? It is common knowledge that founding figures in European and Euro-American modern dance appropriated Asian movement vocabularies in their choreographies. But scholars are only beginning to examine the ways in which Latin American, African, and Asian "fokloric" dance convention has been inflected by European concert dance training and stage practice, as well as MTV choreographers. By focusing on the circulation of movement styles, pedagogies and performance conventions, we hope to trouble some of the categoric distinctions which have tended to divide dance research: between "Western" and "non-Western", "classical" and "folkloric", and "ritual", "social" and "theatrical" genres. Arguably, the histories of many contemporary dance forms are more complex than such restrictive categories would admit ... |
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| Item Description: | A collection of edited papers provided by those authors who chose to contribute their papers as a record of the conference. Conference sponsors and venues: The Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts; Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University; Judson Memorial Church; The Kitchen; Apple, 17 Waverly Place. |
| Physical Description: | 2 volumes ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |