Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World

Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World
Author: Nyama McCarthy-Brown
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476626073

Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education, choreographing dance about socially charged contemporary issues, and incorporating Native American dances into the curriculum, among other topics. The application of relevant pedagogy in the dance classroom enables instructors to teach methods that reflect students' culture and affirm their experiences.

Shanghai's Dancing World

Shanghai's Dancing World
Author: Andrew Field
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9629963736

"It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively than Andrew Field. His book is packed with fascinating information and attests on every page to his understanding of Shanghai's history." LYNN PAN, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor --

Survival in the Dance World

Survival in the Dance World
Author: Joy Camden
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1412070708

Memoirs of Joy's ballet training, dancing, teaching and choreography career from 1923 to 2005 including her years in Canada and in England as a Royal Academy of Dance Major Examiner.

S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World

S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World
Author: Sol Hurok
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2023-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World" by Sol Hurok. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Dance in a World of Change

Dance in a World of Change
Author: Sherry B. Shapiro
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780736069434

With contributors from many fields and diverse cultural backgrounds, this book expands on the discourse and curriculum of dance in ways that connect it to the critical, political, moral and aesthetic dimensions of society, for example, examining choreography and issues of the self.

Dancing the World Smaller

Dancing the World Smaller
Author: Rebekah J. Kowal
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0190265310

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honoring difference.

Dance Education around the World

Dance Education around the World
Author: Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317801954

Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, writers across the globe come together to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences. The settings are drawn from a spectrum of countries with contributions from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and Africa giving insights and fresh perspectives into contrasting ideas, philosophies and approaches to dance education from Egypt to Ghana, Brazil to Finland, Jamaica to the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and more. This volume offers chapters and narratives on: Curriculum developments worldwide Empowering communities through dance Embodiment and creativity in dance teaching Exploring and assessing learning in dance as artistic practice Imagined futures for dance education Reflection, evaluation, analysis and documentation are key to the evolving ecology of dance education and research involving individuals, communities and nations. Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change provides a great resource for dance educators, practitioners and researchers, and pushes for the furtherance of dance education around the world. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Assistant professor and head of educational studies at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, research group Body, Learning and Identity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stephanie Burridge lectures at Lasalle College of the Arts and Singapore Management University, and is the series editor for Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific.

World Dance Cultures

World Dance Cultures
Author: Patricia Leigh Beaman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317441060

From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts, taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, Turkey, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including: Case Studies – zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural, historical, and religious contexts ‘Explorations’ – first-hand descriptions of dances, from scholars, anthropologists and practitioners ‘Think About’ – provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood Discussion Questions – starting points for group work, classroom seminars or individual study Further Study Tips – listing essential books, essays and video material. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos, World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike.

The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World

The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World
Author: Fiona Macintosh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191634387

When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas.