Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City
- Author: Hamera, Judith A.
As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city wherein Hamera grounds her investigation, I recommend Dancing Communities not only as a text worth reading but,...
Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City
- Author: Hamera, Judith A.
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As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city wherein Hamera grounds her investigation, I recommend Dancing Communities not only as a text worth reading but,...
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Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may have little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities the book suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work productively together.
Contents
- List of
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements Series Editor's
- Preface
- Introduction Dancing the City Intimacies in Motion Corporeal Chronotopes: Making Place and Keeping Time in Ballet Saving Khmer Classical Dance in Long Beach Dancing Other-Wise: Ethics, Difference and Transcendence in Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers
- Conclusion Dancing Communities - Ideas of Order, Queer Intimacies, Civic Infrastructure
- References
- Index
Awards and reviews
Dance Research Journal
As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city wherein Hamera grounds her investigation, I recommend Dancing Communities not only as a text worth reading but, even more so, as a task worth rehearsing
