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How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey
The first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami peoples in Northern Europe.
Unmaking Contact interrogates “contact” through the examination of South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on physical and intersubjective touch and relations within dance, and shifting its conceptualisation beyond contact improvisation.
This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans' relationship with nature.
This book examines the performance of Bauls ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.
This work presents three arguments about the merengue's longevity as a unifying symbol of Dominican identity. White, Catholic, Hispanic... Læs mere
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularisation of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia.