Author : Charlotte Heth
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Indian dance
ISBN :
This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.
Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1452913439
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author : Carol Spindel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814781268
A topical discussion of the controversial use of American Indian mascots by college-level and professional sports teams.
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0486145506
This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps Native American groups have used to express ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée.
Author : Reginald Laubin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806121727
Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing
Author : Ann M. Axtmann
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813048648
Colloquially the term “powwow” refers to a meeting where important matters will be discussed. However, at the thousands of Native American intertribal dances that occur every year throughout the United States and Canada, a powwow means something else altogether. Sometimes lasting up to a week, these social gatherings are a sacred tradition central to Native American spirituality. Attendees dance, drum, sing, eat, re-establish family ties, and make new friends. In this compelling interdisciplinary work, Ann Axtmann examines powwows as practiced primarily along the Atlantic coastline, from New Jersey to New England. She offers an introduction to the many complexities of the tradition and explores the history of powwow performance, the variety of their setups, the dances themselves, and the phenomenon of “playing Indian.” Ultimately, Axtmann seeks to understand how the dancers express and embody power through their moving bodies and what the dances signify for the communities in which they are performed.
Author : Mary B. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1135638543
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Margaret Fuhrer
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1627885692
The most comprehensive, beautiful book ever to be published on dance in America. "We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance." Groundbreaking choreographer Martha Graham deeply understood the power and complexity of dance--particularly as it evolved in her home country. American Dance, by critic and journalist Margaret Fuhrer, traces that richly complex evolution. From Native American dance rituals to dance in the digital age, American Dance explores centuries of innovation, individual genius and collaborative exploration. Some of its stories - such as Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling or Alvin Ailey founding the trailblazing company that bears his name - will be familiar to anyone who loves dance. The complex origins of tap, for instance, or the Puritan outrage against "profane and promiscuous dancing" during the early years of the United States, are as full of mystery and humor as Graham describes. These various developments have never before been presented in a single book, making American Dance the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Breakdancing, musical-theater dance, disco, ballet, jazz, ballroom, modern, hula, the Charleston, the Texas two-step, swing--these are just some of the forms celebrated in this riveting volume Hundreds of photographs accompany the text, making American Dance as visually captivating as the works it depicts.
Author : Maureen Needham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252069994
Representing dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the dance and dancers' views of what they do when they dance. Dance traditions represented include the Native American pow-wow; tribal music and dance activities on Sunday afternoons in New Orlean's Congo Square; the colonial Playford Balls and their modern offspring, country line dancing; and the Buddhist-inspired Japanese Bon dances in Hawaii. Anti-dance perspectives include government injunctions against Native American dancing and essays from a range of speakers who have declared the waltz, the twist, or the senior prom to be a careless quick-step away from hell or the brothel. I See America Dancing examines the styles that have marked theatrical dance in America, from French ballet to minstrel shows, and presents the views of influential dancers, choreographers, and the pioneers of early modern dance in America. Specific pieces examined include George Ballanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes, Yvonne Rainer's protest piece "Flag Dance, 1970," and Sonjé Mayo's "Naked in America." Covering historical social attitudes toward the dance as well as the performers and their works, I See America Dancing is a comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook that captures the energy and passion of this vital artform.
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258835002
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
