Self
Theresa Ruth Howard: About Me, from www.mybodymyimage.com
Body
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Ripe with Meaning -- Marney Schaumann's ThesisMy thesis research involves pregnancy, motherhood, and women in contemporary modern dance. As a cultural body, the pregnant body is highly complex. It defies simple definition, is highly symbolic, and often holds conflicting connotations. For any women the decision to have a child is monumental, but for dancing women, whose bodies are their means of livelihood, the decision is even weightier.
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Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes
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Call Number: MD 1783 .B73 T3613 2013ISBN: 9780199916573Publication Date: 2015-04-10
Race and Ethnicity
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Choreographing Identities
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Compiled in great part from the author's own personal dance experience, this volume looks at how various cultures use dance as a visual representation of their identity, and how "traditional" dances change over time.
Call Number: MD 1623 .S42 C46 2006ISBN: 9780786426003Publication Date: 2006-08-09 -
The American Dance Festival's dancing in the light: six dances by African-American choreographers
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The American Dance Festival presents Dancing in the Light, a one-hour modern dance television program showcasing 6 historic dance compositions by African American choreographers. All of the dances were originally recorded for the Emmy Award-winning series Free to Dance, a three-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2001 as part of the Great Performances: Dance in America series. While Free to Dance uses select excerpts from the dances to inform its narrative within a historical context, Dancing in the Light features six dances in their entirety or in the case of one work, a complete section. The dances include: Ostrich (1932) by Asadata Dafora, Barrelhouse Blues (1943) by Katherine Dunham, Strange Fruit (1943) by Pearl Primus, Mourner's Bench (1947) by Talley Beatty, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1959) by Donald Mc Kayle, First Section of D-Man in the Waters (1989) by Bill T. Jones.
Call Number: MD 1624.7 .A34 A63 2007 DVDISBN: 0769785204Publication Date: 2007 -
The Body, the Dance and the Text
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"This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on their varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices, with a focus on movement as a meaning-making process--including the choreographic act of writing"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: MD 1588.6 .B64 2019ISBN: 1476671893Publication Date: 2019-01-16 -
Flamenco Nation
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How did flamenco - a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards - become so inexorably tied to the country's identity? The author focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverence over the course of two centuries
Call Number: DP 48 .H76 2019ISBN: 0299321800Publication Date: 2019-06-11 -
Bill T. Jones: Solos
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A major figure on the contemporary choreography scene, Bill T. Jones is also a remarkable dancer and a performer with an electrifying stage presence. Here, alone in a studio and filmed from a totally cinematic point of view, he speaks to us of violence, gentleness and emotion in three short pieces: Ionization, to music by Edgar Varèse; Chaconne, from J.-S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in D Minor; and Tea for Two, which uses Blossom Dearie’s version of the classic song. Bonuses on The Dancing Man include interviews with the choreographer, master classes and dance excerpts.
Call Number: MD 1785 .J64 B44 2008 DVDPublication Date: 2008 -
Indian classical dance and the making of postcolonial national identities : dancing on empire's stage
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Explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781315387321Publication Date: 2017 -
Beyond the steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Award-winning filmmaker Phil Bertelsen offers a rare backstage look at one of America s oldest modern dance companies at a defining moment in its history--as it settles into its own permanent home and training facility in New York City. Set against the construction of the new dance center and the creation of a new dance, every bit of passion, talent, and hard work that goes into keeping a company running is on display. The troupe seamlessly weaves from rehearsal to a triumphant tour in Russia, back to their new dream-come-true digs in Manhattan. BEYOND THE STEPS intertwines the dancers individual tragedies and triumphs with breathtaking performance footage from their journey, shining a spotlight on the story of one of America s most beloved cultural institutions. Visually stunning and emotionally poignant, the film provides a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of modern dance.
Call Number: MD 1786 .A34 B47 2007 DVDPublication Date: 2007 -
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: four by Ailey
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The four ballets presented on this tape show not just the Ailey company at its best, but serve as a sort of testament to Ailey himself. Two of the works ("Divining" and "The Stack-Up") are works by two choreographers among many Ailey made a "home" for; the former work is by former Ailey dancer and current Artistic Director Judith Jamison, the latter by the late Katherine Dunham protege Talley Beatty.
Call Number: MD 1786 .A58 2009 DVDPublication Date: 2009
Identity
"Our True Identity", by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. From lds.org
Nationalism/Multiculturalism and the Arts
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Social Choreography
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See chapter: "America makes me sick!" nationalism, race, gender and hysteria
Call Number: MD 1782.5 .H48 S62 2005ISBN: 082233514XPublication Date: 2005-04-08
Spirituality and Religion
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Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities
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"Presenting a rich mosaic of embodied contemporary narratives in spirituality and movement studies, this book explicitly studies the relationship between spirituality and the field of Somatic Movement Dance Education. It is the first scholarly text to focus on contemporary spirituality within the domain of dance and somatic movement studies. ...[It] brings together prominent authors and practitioners in order to elucidate how a wide range of sacred narratives/spiritualities are informing pedagogy, educational and therapeutic practice. As well as providing new insights and promoting creative/artistic awareness, this seminal text de-mystifies the spiritual/sacred and brings clarity and academic visibility to this largely uncharted and often misrepresented subject."--Back cover
Call Number: MD 1595 .D366 I58 2014ISBN: 9781783201785Publication Date: 2015-01-15
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Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Resource to works by and about Mormons, including current, historical, and bibliographic information about authors and works.
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Mormon Artist Mormon Artist is an online magazine (2008-present) covering the Latter-day Saint arts world and the intersection between art and faith. Includes interviews with Mormons who create visual art, literature, film, theatre, dance, and music.
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Studies in Mormon History This database includes citations to articles, books, theses, and Ph.D. dissertations dealing with the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, written from the time of its inception in 1830 to the present.
Politics
Use subject heading: Dance, Political Aspects
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Dance and Politics
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Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body -- 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution -- 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics -- 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': gumboot dance in South Africa -- Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence -- Dancing human rights -- Conclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope.
Call Number: MD 1588.6 .M55 2017ISBN: 9781526105158Publication Date: 2016-12-30
