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Book Asian Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Descutner
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1438130783
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Asian Dance written by Janet Descutner and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, methods of teaching, ceremonial styles, basic steps, and famous figures of traditional Asian dance from Japan, China, India and more.

Book Corporeal Politics

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  • Author : Katherine Mezur
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2020-09-03
  • ISBN : 0472054554
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Corporeal Politics written by Katherine Mezur and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

Book Asian Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Descutner
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780613840460
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Asian Dance written by Janet Descutner and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, religious significance, national styles, and basic steps of traditional dance from the Asia.

Book Inter Asia in Motion

Download or read book Inter Asia in Motion written by Emily Wilcox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground “East-West” relationships, each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences, as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural, geographical, and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers’ understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia, with a focus on dance circulations in and across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics, History, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

Book Dances of Asia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kiitsu Sakakibara
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Dances of Asia written by Kiitsu Sakakibara and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian Dance

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  • Author : Kapila Vatsyayan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9788188827237
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Asian Dance written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Southeast Asian Dance

Download or read book Reading Southeast Asian Dance written by Rhonda S. Ryman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian Dance

Download or read book Asian Dance written by Mohd. Anis Md. Nor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book African and Asian Dance

Download or read book African and Asian Dance written by Andrew Solway and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which dancers dance through fire? Why does it take several hours to put on make-up for a kathakali dance? Which dance company uses tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera movement, martial arts, modern dance and ballet in its dancing? African and Asian Dance provides a detailed look at the development of African and Asian dancing, from the huge variety of traditional folk dances to the modern techniques used by choreographers such as Germaine Acogny and the Cloud Gate Theatre today. The book looks at how the choreography and improvisation differ from other styles of dance, and explores the part played by costumes and make-up.

Book Revolutionary Bodies

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  • Author : Emily Wilcox
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2018-10-23
  • ISBN : 0520300572
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Revolutionary Bodies written by Emily Wilcox and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Revolutionary Bodies is the first English-language primary source–based history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author.

Book Dances of South East Asia

Download or read book Dances of South East Asia written by Aziz Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dance in Africa  Asia  and the Pacific

Download or read book Dance in Africa Asia and the Pacific written by Judy Van Zile and published by New York : MSS Information Corporation. This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folk dances of Asia and the Pacific 2

Download or read book Folk dances of Asia and the Pacific 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific written by Stephanie Burridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the South Pacific. Drawing on extensive research and decades of performative experience as artists, choreographers, producers, teachers, and critics, the authors approach issues of dance and cultural diversity from a theoretical perspective while at the same time exploring change, process, and transformation through dance. The book discusses themes such as tradition, contemporization, interdisciplinarity, dance education, youth dance, dance networks, curatorial practices, and evolving performative practices of dance companies and independents. It also looks at regional networking, curating dance festivals and spaces that foster collaboration, regional cooperation, and cultural exchange, which are essential features of dance in Asia and the Pacific. This collection will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.

Book Theatre in the East

Download or read book Theatre in the East written by Faubion Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sounding the Dance  Moving the Music

Download or read book Sounding the Dance Moving the Music written by Mohd Anis Md Nor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elements intermingle and complement each other. Although this fact is widely known and referenced, most scholarly works in the performing arts so far have either focused on "music" or "dance" rather than treating the two in combination. The authors in this book look at both aspects in performance, moreover, they focus explicitly on the interrelation between the two, on both descriptive-analytical and metaphorical levels. The book includes diverse examples of regional performing art genres from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. All case studies are composed from the perspective of the relatively new approach and field of ethno-choreomusicology. This particular compilation gives an exemplary overview of various phenomena in movement-sound relations, and offers for the first time a thorough study of the phenomenon that is considered essential for the performing arts in Maritime Southeast Asia - the inseparability of movement and sound.

Book Classical Dance and Theatre in South East Asia

Download or read book Classical Dance and Theatre in South East Asia written by Jukka O. Miettinen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book provides an introduction to the richtraditions of South-East Asian dance, theatre and puppet theatre. It focusesmainly on classical traditions which are still performed and separate sectionsare devoted to Burma, Thailand, Java, Bali, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Laos.Chinese theatre in the region and the Chinese-influenced theatre of Vietnam arealso discussed.