ISBN:
0810861496
,
9780810861497
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxxv, 362 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice : Dignity in Motion
DDC:
306.4/846
Keywords:
Dance Political aspects
;
Dance Social aspects
;
Dance Sociological aspects
;
Human rights
;
Social justice
;
Dance -- Sociological aspects
;
Dance -- Political aspects
;
Dance -- Social aspects
Abstract:
This contributed volume is a collection of international writings on dance, human rights, and social justice in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book illuminates and analyzes dance in contexts of oppression and its subversion, as well as in situations promoting access to dance, and those encouraging healing from human rights abuses through movement
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Regulatory Moves; Chapter 1. Roadblock: Journal Excerpt, November 26, 2001; Chapter 2. Practical Imperative: German Dance, Dancers, and Nazi Politics; Chapter 3. Plunge Not into the Mire of Worldly Folly: Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Religious Objections to Social Dance in the United States; Chapter 4. Dancing Chinese Nationalism and Anticommunism: The Minzu Wudao Movement in 1950s Taiwan; Chapter 5. Animation Politique: The Embodiment of Nationalism in Zaire
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6. Dance and Human Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central AsiaChapter 7. Right to Dance: Exotic Dancing in the United States; Chapter 8. The Hidden Authoritarian Roots in Western Concert Dance; Chapter 9. Human Rights and Dance through an Artist's Eyes; Part Two. Choreographing Human Rights; Chapter 10. Fagaala; Chapter 11. Your Fight Is Our Fight: Protest Ballets in Sweden; Chapter 12. Dancing in Paradise with Liz Lerman on 9/11; Chapter 13. What Was Always There; Chapter 14. Cambodian Dance and the Individual Artist
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15. Dancing against Burning Grounds: Notes on From Site: Lament, Fury, and a Plea for PeaceChapter 16. Human Rights Issues in the Work of Barro Rojo Arte Escénico; Chapter 17. Requiem; Chapter 18. Sardono: Dialogues with Humankind and Nature; Chapter 19. Adib's Dance; Part Three. Healing, Access, and the Experience of Youth; Chapter 20. Japanese Butoh and My Right to Heal; Chapter 21. Dancing in our Blood: Dance/Movement Therapy with Street Children and Victims of Organized Violence in Haiti
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 22. Interactions between Movement and Dance, Visual Images, Etno, and Physical Environments: Psychosocial Work with War-Affected Refugee and Internally Displaced Children and Adults (Serbia 20Chapter 23. Sudanese Youth: Dance as Mobilization in the Aftermath of War; Chapter 24. Community Dance: Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre as a Vehicle for Cultural Emancipation; Chapter 25. Doing Time: Dance in Prison; Chapter 26. Balance and Freedom: Dancing in from the Margins of Disability; Part Four. Kinetic Transgressions; Chapter 27. Exposure and Concealment
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 28. The Dance of Life: Women and Human Rights in ChileChapter 29. Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth; Chapter 30. No More Starving in the Attic: Senior Dance Artists Advocate a Canadian Artists' Heritage Resource Centre; Chapter 31. Dance and Disability; Chapter 32. Monuments and Insurgencies in the Age of AIDS; Chapter 33. If I Survive: Yehudit Arnon's Story; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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