Cristina F. Rosa

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Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification (eBook, PDF)

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Beschreibung

Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga . Cristina Rosa its presence across distinct and specific realms: samba-de-roda (samba-in-a-circle) dances, capoeira angola games, and the repertoire of Grupo Corpo.

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Autor

Cristina F. Rosa is a native of Brazil who migrated to the US in 1996. She is currently a full-time faculty lecturer in dance at Tufts University. Her research interests include the intersection of embodiment, knowledge production, and processes of identification. She has been published in TDR and e-misférica. She previously taught in the US at Reed College, the University of California, Riverside, the Florida State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. She has also served as a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin's International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' (Germany, 2012-13). She earned her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137462275
• Artikelnr.: 43978808