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Title Geographies of dance : body, movement, and corporeal negotiations / edited by Adam Pine and Olaf Kuhlke
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 MAIN STACKS  GV1588.6 .G46 2014  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index
Subject Dance -- Social aspects
Cultural geography
Academic Subj. Dance
Alternate Author Pine, Adam, 1975- editor
Kuhlke, Olaf, 1971- editor
ISBN 9780739171844 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
0739171844 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780739171851 (electronic)
Table of Contents
 Introduction / Adam Pinevii
1.Modernity, Post-modernity, and the Paradigmatic Mudra: Corporeal Negotiations in the Works of Toronto's Contemporary Bharatanatyam Choreographers / Paromita Kar1
2.Neighboring in Strip City: Local Conflict and Spaces of Exotic Dance in Portland, Oregon / Moriah McSharry McGrath21
3.One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist / Teresa Heiland47
4.Some Dance to Remember: The Emotional Politics of Marginality, Reinvention, Embodied Memory, and All That (Cape) Jazz / Tamara M. Johnson75
5.Social Dance as Social Space / Jonathan Skinner101
6.Mediating the Other through Dance: Geopolitics, Social Ordering, and Meaning-Making in American and Improvisational Tribal Style Dance / Georgia Connover115
7.Mimetic Moves: Dance and Learning to Learn in Northwest Alaska / Matthew Kurtz137
8.Dance, Architecture, and Space in the Making / Frances Bronet159
9.At Home in Motion: Networks, Nodes, and Navigation: The Varied Flight Paths of Bird Brain Dance / Katrinka Somdahl-Sands175
10.Belly Dancing in Israel: Body, Embodiment, Religion and Nationality / Tovi Fenster191
 Conclusion / Olaf Kuhlke207
 Bibliography213
 Index239
 About the Contributors243



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