Emily Wright

Dancing to Transform (eBook, ePUB)

How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dancing to Transform makes a refreshing and important contribution to the growing sub-discipline of religion and performance. By using four original, multi-site, qualitative studies of four dance companies, it examines the religious lives of American Christians who are also professional dancers.

In this book, Emily Wright details how religious and artistic commitments, everyday lived experiences and varied performance contexts influence and shape the approaches of Christian professional dancers to creating, transforming and performing dance. Subsequently, this book provides readers with a greater awareness and appreciation for the complex interactions between American Christianity and dance.

Dancing to Transform will appeal to scholars and practitioners in dance and performance fields, especially those working with religious iconography and visual culture, as well as religious studies scholars and anyone with particular interest in religious expression through performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789383287
• Artikelnr.: 61832072

Autorenporträt

Emily Wright is assistant professor of dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in dance from Texas Woman's University and an MFA in dance from Arizona State University. She has contributed chapters to the edited volumes Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance (2011) and Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice (2020) and her work has been published in Dance, Movement & Spiritualities and the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship.