Dancing in the World - Revealing Cultural Confluences

This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in diverse dance cultures to navigate academia and the professional dance field.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revealing cultural confluences
Chapter 1: Language, value, and branding in confluent dance spaces
Chapter 2: Critical engagement with aesthetic systems in dance
Chapter 3: Navigating cultural confluences and envisioning new spaces
Chapter 4: Choreography, improvisation, and "just steps"
Chapter 5: Cultural knowledge production in dance academia
Index

About the author

Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, M.F.A., is a choreographer, dancer, researcher, and assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Kathleen A. Spanos, Ph.D., is a dancer, educator, and scholar who is a co-founder of the arts non-profit EducArte and assistant director of communications for the University of Maryland Honors College.

Summary

This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in diverse dance cultures to navigate academia and the professional dance field.

Product details

• Authors: Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, Sinclair Ogaga Spanos Emoghene, Kathleen A. Spanos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032138756
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213875-6
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Dance, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Folk, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), African History, Performance Art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, The arts: general topics, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies