Global Movements
Dance, Place, and Hybridity
Contributions by Yuko Aoyama, Mary Lynn Babcock, France Joyal, Olaf Kuhlke, Lynnette Young Overby, Adam M. Pine, Steve Smith, Kristin Harris Walsh, Carla Walter Edited by Olaf Kuhlke, Adam M. Pine
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Publication date:
18 December 2014Length of book:
210 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9780739171837
Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from the global diffusion of cultural traditions and practices. The collection portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces—stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments—are transformed and made meaningful by culturally diverse dances. Global Movements will be of interest to scholars of geography, dance, and global issues.
Brimming with engaging ethnographic insight, Global Movements offers a series of sure-footed and lively explorations of the charged zone between identity, geography, and dance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in thinking critically about what is at stake when the cultural and the corporeal are choreographed through the spaces of moving bodies.