Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767721000243
D. McIntyre, Marlies Yearby, Grace Jun, Shamell Bell, MiRi Park
Abstract Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation began with Dr. Shamell Bell's dream, a clear vision of people around the world heeding a call, at the same time, to the same rhythm, in a collective resonance. It has grown into a conversation, a community, a journey, and a call to action. This Radical Embodied Dialogue was created to honor Black dance artists and their legacies. As part of the Street Dance Activism Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation twenty-eight-day collective healing project, we invited Marlies Yearby and Dianne McIntyre to share their stories and their shared histories. The pandemic, coupled with use of technology, opened up and provided alternative methods to host a gathering and listen to their experiences that have too often been excluded from dance history texts. This resulting documentation of some of the work of these artists restores the significance of their work to American dance history.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767721000280
Preethi Ramaprasad
offering multiple options of what could be. This text is a valuable resource for scholars interested in analyzing pop culture. The in-depth analysis and contemporary conversations are also great for students seeking to understand better the culture they are experiencing. The discussion of pop culture and memorable events make the advanced theoretical conversations relevant and approachable. By writing Black people and their contributions into the written record, this text helps to correct the whitewashed Blackness that fuels popular culture.
{"title":"HEAT AND ALTERITY IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE: SOUTH-SOUTH CHOREOGRAPHIES by Ananya Chatterjea. 2020. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 305 pp. $89.99 hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-030-43912-8. $69.99 e-book. ISBN 978-3-030-43912-5.","authors":"Preethi Ramaprasad","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000280","url":null,"abstract":"offering multiple options of what could be. This text is a valuable resource for scholars interested in analyzing pop culture. The in-depth analysis and contemporary conversations are also great for students seeking to understand better the culture they are experiencing. The discussion of pop culture and memorable events make the advanced theoretical conversations relevant and approachable. By writing Black people and their contributions into the written record, this text helps to correct the whitewashed Blackness that fuels popular culture.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47850667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767721000334
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767721000218
Halifu Osumare
Abstract This autoethnography explores a dance scholar's previous choreographic trajectory, positioning the author's career within the sixties and seventies Black Arts Movement for social change. I explore several iterations of my dance lecture-demonstration in particular, which was produced over two decades and three continents, demonstrating how temporal and spatial shifts affect the content and context of a choreographic work. Additionally, I explore my shift into arts producing through my national dance initiative that helped define the work of eighties Black choreographers in the postmodern dance movement. The result is a consideration of how being Black, female, and a dancer provides a particular sociohistorical lens.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1017/s0149767700012079
Ann Dils
The discussion that followed the original presentation of these papers at the 1989 conference speculated on the possibilities of radically reconstructing Tudor's work, somehow re-arranging the gender roles he assigns in order to comment on his covert construction of gender. Reactions varied: some conference participants asserted it was an interesting idea, but felt they wouldn't want to violate Tudor's intentions; others thought this was perfectly acceptable, that the definition of the work needed to be open-ended and include many possibilities. One audience member felt our panel might be considered an instance of the work, especially because Giffin and Maletic performed motifs from the dance. These diverse opinions reflect alternate understandings of what our panel accomplished. On the one hand, our search for constitutive properties is a way of documenting and preserving Dark Elegies. The search for constitutive properties details what has happened in various performances and the content of the score, and also tries to recapture Tudor's thinking. Through his analysis of the score, Giffin discusses Tudor's choreographic constructions and distinctive ways of using the body.
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Ann Dils","doi":"10.1017/s0149767700012079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767700012079","url":null,"abstract":"The discussion that followed the original presentation of these papers at the 1989 conference speculated on the possibilities of radically reconstructing Tudor's work, somehow re-arranging the gender roles he assigns in order to comment on his covert construction of gender. Reactions varied: some conference participants asserted it was an interesting idea, but felt they wouldn't want to violate Tudor's intentions; others thought this was perfectly acceptable, that the definition of the work needed to be open-ended and include many possibilities. One audience member felt our panel might be considered an instance of the work, especially because Giffin and Maletic performed motifs from the dance. These diverse opinions reflect alternate understandings of what our panel accomplished. On the one hand, our search for constitutive properties is a way of documenting and preserving Dark Elegies. The search for constitutive properties details what has happened in various performances and the content of the score, and also tries to recapture Tudor's thinking. Through his analysis of the score, Giffin discusses Tudor's choreographic constructions and distinctive ways of using the body.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0149767700012079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42807415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000050
Rebekah J. Kowal
All of the offerings in this issue are global in scope and complementary in the ways they contend with the resonances of and/or afterlives of embodied hegemonies. Contributions by Rainy Demerson, Elizabeth Schwall, Maho A. Ishiguro, and Casey Avaunt examine contemporary dance practices in South Africa, Cuba, Indonesia, and the US respectively, while the article by Idoia Murga Castro focuses on the aesthetic and cultural politics of early twentieth-century concert dance performance in the Philippines. Four articles investigate vexed colonial histories through the lens of dance practices (Demerson, Schwall, Murga Castro, and Ishiguro), while two focus on dance formations developed in community settings in which dance fosters practices of self-definition within gendered contexts of Asian-American (Avaunt) or Muslim (Ishiguro) frameworks or strictures. Four articles center around the politics of women’s and/or femme dance practices (Demerson, Ishiguro, Murga Castro, and Avaunt). And three involve and theorize methodologies for ethnographic practitioner scholarship (Schwall, Ishiguro, and Avaunt) including insider-outsider dynamics of identity and identification.
本期的所有内容都是全球性的,并且在它们与实体霸权的共鸣和/或来世相抗衡的方式上是互补的。Rainy Demerson、Elizabeth Schwall、Maho A. Ishiguro和Casey Avaunt分别研究了南非、古巴、印度尼西亚和美国的当代舞蹈实践,而Idoia Murga Castro的文章则关注了20世纪早期菲律宾音乐会舞蹈表演的美学和文化政治。四篇文章通过舞蹈实践的镜头调查了令人困惑的殖民历史(Demerson, Schwall, Murga Castro, and Ishiguro),而两篇文章关注的是在社区环境中发展起来的舞蹈形式,其中舞蹈在亚裔美国人(Avaunt)或穆斯林(Ishiguro)框架或限制的性别背景下促进了自我定义的实践。四篇文章围绕女性和/或女性舞蹈实践的政治(Demerson, Ishiguro, Murga Castro和Avaunt)。其中三个涉及并理论化了民族志实践者奖学金的方法论(Schwall, Ishiguro和Avaunt),包括身份和认同的内部-外部动态。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767721000097
Eric C. Mullis
{"title":"CHOREOGRAPHY INVISIBLE: THE DISAPPEARING WORK OF DANCE by Anna Pakes. 2020. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 376 pp., 19 photographs. $39.95 paper. ISBN 978-0199988228.","authors":"Eric C. Mullis","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49096274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S014976772100005X
Jessica L. Friedman
{"title":"MERCE CUNNINGHAM: AFTER THE ARBITRARY by Carrie Noland. 2020. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 304 pp., 17 color plates, 54 halftones. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226541242. DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226541389.001.0001.","authors":"Jessica L. Friedman","doi":"10.1017/S014976772100005X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S014976772100005X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S014976772100005X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767721000103
Angeline Young
{"title":"CORPOREAL POLITICS; DANCING EAST ASIA edited by Katherine Mezur and Emily Wilcox. 2020. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 372 pp., 32 illustrations. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 9780472074556. doi: 10.3998/mpub.11521701","authors":"Angeline Young","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0149767721000103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46366218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767721000012
K. Gover
Abstract Dance theorists and legal scholars argue that choreography is by nature ill-suited to the conceptual framework provided by copyright, even as there is widespread agreement that works of dance deserve the legal protection and cultural endorsement that its inclusion represents. I reexamine the factors that are often cited as barriers to choreography's suitability for copyright. I argue that choreography is better suited to the copyright regime than it appears, so long as we recognize that the artistic standard for substantial similarity should be different from the legal standard.
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