Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space

ISBN-13: 9781032236902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

David Kaminsky

Opis

Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. It promotes scholarship that understands the various functions of partner dance through its embodied practice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Four Branches of Awareness / Chapter 2 Choreohexis: Preparing for Partnership / Chapter 3 The Two-Body System: Positioning, Axis, and Elasticity / Chapter 4 Choreography: Base Elements, Vocabulary, and Basic Steps / Chapter 5 Moving to Music: Social Bodies Entraining / Chapter 6 Floorcraft: Sharing Space / Chapter 7 The Dance Partnership: Leading and Following / Chapter 8 Power Dynamics: Mechanisms of Patriarchy and Resistance / Chapter 9 Conclusion: Social Bodies in Training

O autorze

David Kaminsky is Associate Professor of Global Arts Studies at the University of California, Merced.