David Kaminsky

Social Partner Dance

Body, Sound, and Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780367362270
• ISBN-10: 0367362279
• Artikelnr.: 59458898

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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