Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative ...analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the 'cultural flow' of the dances is 'punctuated' by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar's transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting.
El battement tendu, en sus diferentes formas de ejecución y cada una de ellas con su propio objetivo de trabajo, se hace indispensable desde los primeros cursos de formación en la danza académica, ya ...que proporciona la base para el aprendizaje de los bailarines y las bailarinas. El presente estudio muestra una herramienta de observación diseñada ad hoc para este ejercicio, compuesta por una combinación de formato de campo y sistemas de categorías, exhaustivas y mutuamente excluyentes (E/ME), con el objetivo de poder validar, codificar y evaluar dicho ejercicio de danza clásica en una barra de ballet. El instrumento se compone de 5 criterios y un total de 54 categorías distribuidas de la siguiente forma: 23 en tren inferior, 9 en tren superior, 10 para cabeza/mirada, 3 en dirección espacial y 9 para las cuentas musicales. La muestra seleccionada en el estudio estaba formaba por 10 bailarines/as, ocho mujeres y dos hombres, todos con un nivel profesional en danza clásica. Se realizó un análisis de Calidad del Dato y un análisis de Generalizabilidad con los programas HOISAN y SAGT vl.O respectivamente. La fiabilidad de los observadores se llevó a cabo mediante el cálculo de los coeficientes de correlación Pearson, Spearman y Tau b de Kendall; y mediante el índice de concordancia Kappa de Cohen y concordancia canónica de Krippendorf. Los resultados mostraron adecuados coeficientes de correlación e índices concordancia, así como excelentes resultados de la Generalizabilidad con un valor G relativo y G absoluto de .99 en el acuerdo interobservador y 1.00 para el acuerdo intraobservador, revelando que la herramienta de observación para el ejercicio del battement tendu en la danza clásica presenta una óptima precisión, fiabilidad y validez.
Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the ...postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres like the sabar, and the popular dances they grew up with. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
With the installation of the COVID19 pandemic in our lives, already for a year, dance, an art mostly viewed live, on different stages and in theaters, has moved its activity online. It tried to adapt ...to the new requirements, managing to survive in these conditions. Most of the theaters started to post often on social networks, hoping that through this increased activity, they would still keep their audience. The purpose of this writing is to pre-sent the advantages and disadvantages of passing choreographic performances in the online environment. Was this compelling to stop the physical meeting a barrier from all points of view, or did it also bring positive parts in the choreographic field? Has it increased or restricted the imagination? What will happen to choreographic art in the next period? In the future, will the audience want to watch live choreographic performances or will they prefer the online environment?
L’incontro fra la danza classica, moderna contemporanea e il mondo dell’immagine in movimento produce la nascita di un genere, la Screendance, nella quale i due ambiti sono indissolubilmente legati ...per sperimentare il rapporto fra corpo, immagine e movimento. In questo libro non si parla di musical, ma di opere realizzate in pellicola, in video, in digitale e in animazione sia tradizionale che digitale, che utilizzano la danza per creare un linguaggio audiovisivo innovativo che spazia dall’astrazione all’utilizzo simbolico dell’icona del corpo a muovi modelli di narrazione.
Ancient and culturally universal, dance pervades many areas of life and has multiple benefits. In this article, we provide a conceptual framework and systematic review, as a guide for researching the ...neuroscience of dance. We identified relevant articles following PRISMA guidelines, and summarised and evaluated all original results. We identified avenues for future research in: the interactive and collective aspects of dance; groove; dance performance; dance observation; and dance therapy. Furthermore, the interactive and collective aspects of dance constitute a vital part of the field but have received almost no attention from a neuroscientific perspective so far. Dance and music engage overlapping brain networks, including common regions involved in perception, action, and emotion. In music and dance, rhythm, melody, and harmony are processed in an active, sustained pleasure cycle giving rise to action, emotion, and learning, led by activity in specific hedonic brain networks. The neuroscience of dance is an exciting field, which may yield information concerning links between psychological processes and behaviour, human flourishing, and the concept of eudaimonia.
•We provide a conceptual framework and systematic review of the neuroscience of dance.•The neuroscience of dance is a fairly new, small field, with 133 original studies.•No research has yet been published on neural scanning of multiple people dancing.•Dance observation, imagery, and training are used as proxies for dance performance.•Social aspects of dance, and links between music and dance, are under-explored.
Naked Truth Hanna, Judith Lynne
2012, 20120101
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Taking an unprecedented, counterintuitive look at Americas conflict over sexuality, Naked Truth reveals how the attack on the exotic dance industry by the activist Christian Right threatens the ...separation of church and state and undermines our civil liberties.
I want to be ready Goldman, Danielle
2010., 20100518, 2010, c2010.
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I Want To Be Ready draws on original archival research, careful readings of individual performances, and a thorough knowledge of dance scholarship to offer an understanding of the "freedom" of ...improvisational dance. While scholars often celebrate the freedom of improvised performances, they are generally focusing on freedom from formal constraints. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Houston Baker, among others, Danielle Goldman argues that this negative idea of freedom elides improvisation's greatest power. Far from representing an escape from the necessities of genre, gender, class, and race, the most skillful improvisations negotiate an ever shifting landscape of constraints. This work will appeal to those interested in dance history and criticism and also interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies.
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