Geographies of Dance : Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations

This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book 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 dance. Furthermore, it explores the meaning of dance as emotionally experienced by dancers, and examines how movement in certain spaces creates meaning without the use of words or symbols. Geographies Of Dance: Body, Movement And Corporeal Negotiations Provides A Theoretical And Practical Examination Of The Relationships Between, Bodies, Dance, And Space. Using Ten Case Studies, This Book Illustrates The Symbolic Power Of Dance That Is Crafted By Choreographers And Acted Out By Dancers. The Essays Portray A Multitude Of Ways In Which Public And Private Spaces--stages, Buildings, And Town Squares, As Well As Natural Environments--are Transformed And Made Meaningful By Dance. Furthermore, The Contributors Explore The Meaning Of Dance As Emotionally Experienced By Dancers And Examine How Movement In Certain Spaces Create Meaning Without The Use Of Words Or Symbols -- Back Cover. Modernity, Post-modernity And The Paradigmatic Mudra : Corporeal Negotiations In The Works Of Toronto's Contemporary Bharatanatyam Choreographers / Paromita Kar -- Neighboring In Strip City : Local Conflict And Spaces Of Exotic Dance In Portland, Oregon / Moriah Mcsharry Mcgrath -- One Foot Inside The Circle : Contemporary Dance Of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism And Into Neo-modernism-with-a-twist / Teresa Heiland -- Some Dance To Remember : The Emotional Politics Of Marginality, Reinvention, Embodied Memory, And All That (cape) Jazz / Tamara M. Johnson -- Social Dance As Social Space / Jonathan Skinner -- Mediating The Other Through Dance : Geopolitics, Social Ordering, And Meaning-making In American And Improvisational Tribal Style Dance / Georgia Connover -- Mimetic Moves : Dance And Learning To Learn In Northwest Alaska / Matthew Kurtz -- Dance, Architecture And Space In The Making / Frances Bronet -- At Home In Motion : Networks, Nodes, And Navigation : The Varied Flight Paths Of Bird Brain Dance / Katrinka Somdahl-sands -- Belly Dancing In Israel : Body, Embodiment, Religion And Nationality / Tovi Fenster. Edited By Adam Pine And Olaf Kuhlke. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-237) And Index. This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban planners and examines how dance uses, transforms and gives meaning to the everyday spaces we inhabit.