World Dance Cultures: From Ritual to Spectacle

ISBN-13: 9781032044941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str.

Patricia Leigh Beaman

Opis

From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures which are practiced around the world.

Spis treści

1. India: Devotion, dance, mythology  2. Indonesia: Bali and Java: From temple, to village, to court  3. Cambodia and China: Dance as a political tool  4. Japananese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels  5. Hawai‘i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea: Keepers of culture  6. Africa: Fertility festivals, death ceremonies, ancestor worship, and healing rituals  7. North Africa, Türkiye, and Spain: Healing, worship, and expression  8. Native America, the Caribbean, South America: Resistance, spirituality, spectacle  9. Europe: Presenting the "Other" in French Renaissance and Baroque ballet de cour

O autorze

Patricia Leigh Beaman teaches dance history at Wesleyan University and at New York University, USA. As a Baroque, Neo-Baroque, and contemporary dancer, she has worked in the United States, Europe, and beyond, and she is drawn to juxtaposing eighteenth century Baroque dance with Postmodern dances of the 1960s.