Anthropology in Dance (original) (raw)
Related papers
Anthropology in Dance, Gesture Systems of the Body
Nóra Ábrahám, 2021
My paper outlines an anthropological approach to dance focusing on the body's interpretation within the contexts of space, sensuality, theater, fashion, aesthetic quality, and the development of gesture systems of the body. The study addresses the question whether the bareness of the body and space may be defined as a form of emptiness or rather as a case of sincere manifestation and revolves around the issues of social and personal attitudes related to dance performance, including mimetic performers, limits of social body norms, and the possibilities of survival, especially the changes in the female body's perceptual and social roles and strategies.
Dancing bodies, spaces/places and the senses: A cross-cultural investigation
"This article demonstrates that `dancing bodies', `space', `place' and the `senses' cannot be accepted as universal concepts since they are embedded within typically western understandings, and argues that all corporealities and spatialities are socially and culturally mediated. Wanting to engage with dance as a complex holistic, polysemic, multi-sensory and socially/culturally rooted practice, dance scholars need to be aware of cultural variations in conceptualizations of dancing bodies in space. The article offers a cross-cultural perspective, presenting different corporealities, sensoria and spatial orientations of dancing bodies using a variety of examples, ranging from Balinese dance to Josephine Baker, from Namibian to Australian Aboriginal dance. Keywords: corporeality; spatiality; sensorium; ballet; verticality; Josephine Baker; Tiwi dance "
Heurtebise, J-Y. 2012. Rethinking the Body with Reference to Modern Dance and Gender Studies.
Heurtebise, J-Y. 2012. Rethinking the Body with reference to Modern Dance and Gender Studies, 運動文化研究, n° 20: 7-37, 2012
Though the Body is now a hot topic in cultural studies, philosophy of Dance is still in its infancy. However Dance, this living oxymoron, can provide to the philosopher a unique occasion to re-think the relationships between subject and object, artist and work, mind and body and overcome the traditional dualisms of Western Philosophy. Actually, because of its ambivalent understanding of the Body, classical philosophy seems unable to furnish the conceptual keys to understand the dancing phenomenon. From Plato to Husserl via Descartes, the definition of human subjectivity and personal identity has been based on intellectual and rational characteristics. Analyzing Dance gives the opportunity to elaborate a new conceptualization of the Body, in its anthropological, aesthetical and ontological dimensions. Firstly, the historical and structural links between the emergence of Modern Dance and the rise of Feminism will be analyzed. Then, the implications for the understanding of the constitution of dancing bodies will be developed. Finally the philosophical consequences of the dancing artistic practice on the redefinition of the Body will be addressed.
2017
Press, 1977-Performing Arts-238 pages. Dance Ethnology and the Anthropology of Dance Adrienne L.-iSites The anthropology of dance-cityofdancefestival.nl Holdings: The anthropology of dance Techniques for studying and recording dance, including notation systems, field guides, film, and anthropological means of participant-observation. Jill D. Sweet-Skidmore College Dancing Cultures. Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance. Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner. 236 pages, 11 PDF-European Association of Social Anthropologists Since the dawn of man, dance has been present as a mirror of our journey through life, like a physical safeguard through the identity of every culture, like a. The anthropology of dance-Anya Peterson Royce-Google Books The anthropology of dance .
2019
Dancing, especially the National-Iranian style of dancing, along with its other variations aiming at perceiving the body and its motions, provoked two issues in my mind: firstly, that the body and the subjectivity are not two thoroughly separated different phenomena. Still, there is a kind of body perception before any understanding of oneself and harmony concerning which the body expresses itself. Secondly, through the body and with the aid of dancing, the motions may find ways to convey meanings and self-understandings, which are necessarily social and historical.
The Anthropology of Dance. A Selected Bibliography
1978
Abstract: Over 250 monographs, journal articles, and papers are cited in this selected bibliography of resources on the anthropology of dance. Most of the entries were published during the 1960s and 1970s. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and give ...
What Does the Body Know? Dance as Affective Practice in the Exploration of the Embodiment of Gender
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, 2022
In this chapter, I discuss the relationship between the body, dance as an affective practice, and gender. I draw upon collaborative performance ethnography (which formed part of my doctoral research) in order to discuss dance (or creative movement) as an affective practice and a way of (visceral) knowing about the body and gender. In the research I present in this chapter, I focus on work with creative embodied methods, comprising the elusive, intangi- ble, sensory, and affective dimensions of embodiment, and with that of being situated and embodied in the world, to an already rich field of research on gender and the body (Bordo 1993; Coleman 2009; Grosz 1994). This also means creating a space for exploring the fluidity and relationality of being (including gendered being). Movement and dance have not been among the dominant research methods in social inquiry – yet critiques of the absence of the fleeting, the distributed, the multiple, the non-causal, the chaotic, the complex, as well as of the sensory, emotional, and kinaesthetic (Coleman 2017), have recently led to what has become known as “mobilities turn” (Büscher et al. 2010) and to the recognition of what Rebecca Coleman calls “sensory sociology” (2017). These new approaches to exploring dynamic, fleeting, sensory, and affective dimensions of social life have enabled a focus on partial and multiple knowledge of the multitude of ways of being in the world, which does not exclude repetition, accumulation, and structures.