Patricia Leigh Beaman

World Dance Cultures

From Ritual to Spectacle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 187mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9781032044941
• ISBN-10: 1032044942
• Artikelnr.: 68101823

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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