Kinesthetic City - Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

Zusatztext Informative and provocative! Kwan's analysis challenges readers to see 'ethnic dance' in a more meaningful! broader context... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor SanSan Kwan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at California State University, Los Angeles and the University of California, Riverside. She is co-editor, with Kenneth Speirs, of Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects. Her articles have appeared in The Dance Review and Performance Research, among otherpublications. Klappentext Kinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise moments can illuminate the communities in those places and times. It examines the simultaneous persistence and mobility of the idea of Chineseness as it travels across a transnational network of Chinese cities. Zusammenfassung Kinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise moments can illuminate the communities in those places and times. It examines the simultaneous persistence and mobility of the idea of Chineseness as it travels across a transnational network of Chinese cities.

Product details

• Authors: Sansan Kwan, SanSan (Assistant Professor of Dance Kwan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.01.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199921515
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992151-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Performing Arts, Folk-Stil, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Folk, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern