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The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture

The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture

Author(s): Judith Bennahum , Ninotchka Bennahum

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2012

Pages: 332

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The essays in The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture explore the history of both eastern and western forms of dance, and emphasize important trends in contemporary theatrical and social performance. Each of the dances discussed brings into focus the vitality and richness of the cultures that produced them. 

Completely updated throughout, the 3rd edition of The Living Dance examines:

  • Native American Dances of New Mexico
  • Mexican and New Mexican Dances
  • Deep Song Dances of Gypsy Blacksmiths
  • Modernism in Dance
  • African American Influences on Dance
  • Dance in India
  • Dance in Film
  • A Critical Appreciation of Dances

The Living Dance demonstrates how important the local knowledge of movement styles informs the essential understanding of how dance functions on many levels. 

Throughout the book, the reader witnesses the way dance responds to conquest, fusion, the advancement of subcultures, gender roles, fashions of clothing on the body while dancing, and to the survival of communities. 

Through the essays, numerous photographs, and reflection journal, the reader will learn the power of dance during their quest for mutual cross-cultural understanding.

Featuring three new authors (Dawn Lille, Michelle Hayes, and Yasmine Jahanmir), The Living Dance provides a contemporary, critical, and feminist perspective to the history of dance.

Chapter 1: Native American Dances of New Mexico
Zuni Ceremonial by Tom Bahti
Tewa Village Rituals by Jill Sweet 

Chapter 2: Mexican and New Mexican Dances
A Brief Historical Introduction to Mexican and New Mexican Folk Dances by Bridgit Lujan and Marcela Sandoval
The Matachines Dance of My People by Jo Marie Griego Lubarsky 

Chapter 3: Deep Song Dances of Gypsy Blacksmiths
Flamenco: Music, Movement, and Meaning by Michelle Hayes 

Chapter 4: Modernism in Dance
Modern Dance – Tradition in Process by Marcia B. Siegel
Global Avante-Garde: 1995–2012 by Dawn Lille 

Chapter 5: Ballet
Reinvention and Continuity Over Six Centuries by Lynn Garafola 

Chapter 6: The Africanist Presence in American Dance
Social Dances of African Americans by Sally Sommer
The Home-Grown American Dance Forms—Jazz and Tap Dancing by Kathy M. Milazzao 

Chapter 7: Dance in India: Where Are We Today?
Dance in India: Where Are We Today? by Ananya Chatterjea 

Chapter 8: Dance in Film
Dance in Film by Beth Genné 

Chapter 9: Analyzing and Writing Critically about Dance
The Critical Appreciation of Dances by Larry Lavender 

Chapter 10: Intelligent Bodies: Dance’s Critical Corporeality
Intelligent Bodies: Dance’s Critical Corporeality by Yasmine Jahanmir 

Reflection Journal
Index 

Judith Bennahum
Judith Chazin-Bennahum, Distinguished Professor Emerita, researcher, and choreographer. She was Principal Soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company when Antony Tudor was Director of Ballet and also danced with Robert Joffrey and Agnes de Mille. She received her Doctorate in Romance Languages at the University of New Mexico and is the author of Dance in the Shadow of the Guillotine, (1988), The Ballets of Antony Tudor which received the De la Torre Bueno Prize in 1995 for the best book on dance, The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet 1780-1830 (2004), The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture published by Kendall Hunt in September 2003, Teaching Dance Studies (2005) and most recently René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Oxford University Press, (2011).
Ninotchka Bennahum
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum is a dance historian, choreographer and performance theorist. Dr. Bennahum holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in History and Art History from Swarthmore College. Her first book, Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina’: Flamenco & the Spanish Avant-Garde (Wesleyan), is a biography of the great modernist Spanish dance artist La Argentina. Her second book, Carmen, a Gypsy Geography (Wesleyan 2013), traces a genealogical history of the Gypsy flamenca dancer from the lands of the ancient Middle East to Hispano-Arab and Sephardic Spain. She is the National Director for Dance History for American Ballet Theater and Associate Professor of Theater & Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The essays in The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture explore the history of both eastern and western forms of dance, and emphasize important trends in contemporary theatrical and social performance. Each of the dances discussed brings into focus the vitality and richness of the cultures that produced them. 

Completely updated throughout, the 3rd edition of The Living Dance examines:

  • Native American Dances of New Mexico
  • Mexican and New Mexican Dances
  • Deep Song Dances of Gypsy Blacksmiths
  • Modernism in Dance
  • African American Influences on Dance
  • Dance in India
  • Dance in Film
  • A Critical Appreciation of Dances

The Living Dance demonstrates how important the local knowledge of movement styles informs the essential understanding of how dance functions on many levels. 

Throughout the book, the reader witnesses the way dance responds to conquest, fusion, the advancement of subcultures, gender roles, fashions of clothing on the body while dancing, and to the survival of communities. 

Through the essays, numerous photographs, and reflection journal, the reader will learn the power of dance during their quest for mutual cross-cultural understanding.

Featuring three new authors (Dawn Lille, Michelle Hayes, and Yasmine Jahanmir), The Living Dance provides a contemporary, critical, and feminist perspective to the history of dance.

Chapter 1: Native American Dances of New Mexico
Zuni Ceremonial by Tom Bahti
Tewa Village Rituals by Jill Sweet 

Chapter 2: Mexican and New Mexican Dances
A Brief Historical Introduction to Mexican and New Mexican Folk Dances by Bridgit Lujan and Marcela Sandoval
The Matachines Dance of My People by Jo Marie Griego Lubarsky 

Chapter 3: Deep Song Dances of Gypsy Blacksmiths
Flamenco: Music, Movement, and Meaning by Michelle Hayes 

Chapter 4: Modernism in Dance
Modern Dance – Tradition in Process by Marcia B. Siegel
Global Avante-Garde: 1995–2012 by Dawn Lille 

Chapter 5: Ballet
Reinvention and Continuity Over Six Centuries by Lynn Garafola 

Chapter 6: The Africanist Presence in American Dance
Social Dances of African Americans by Sally Sommer
The Home-Grown American Dance Forms—Jazz and Tap Dancing by Kathy M. Milazzao 

Chapter 7: Dance in India: Where Are We Today?
Dance in India: Where Are We Today? by Ananya Chatterjea 

Chapter 8: Dance in Film
Dance in Film by Beth Genné 

Chapter 9: Analyzing and Writing Critically about Dance
The Critical Appreciation of Dances by Larry Lavender 

Chapter 10: Intelligent Bodies: Dance’s Critical Corporeality
Intelligent Bodies: Dance’s Critical Corporeality by Yasmine Jahanmir 

Reflection Journal
Index 

Judith Bennahum
Judith Bennahum
Judith Chazin-Bennahum, Distinguished Professor Emerita, researcher, and choreographer. She was Principal Soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company when Antony Tudor was Director of Ballet and also danced with Robert Joffrey and Agnes de Mille. She received her Doctorate in Romance Languages at the University of New Mexico and is the author of Dance in the Shadow of the Guillotine, (1988), The Ballets of Antony Tudor which received the De la Torre Bueno Prize in 1995 for the best book on dance, The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet 1780-1830 (2004), The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture published by Kendall Hunt in September 2003, Teaching Dance Studies (2005) and most recently René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Oxford University Press, (2011).
Ninotchka Bennahum
Ninotchka Bennahum
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum is a dance historian, choreographer and performance theorist. Dr. Bennahum holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in History and Art History from Swarthmore College. Her first book, Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina’: Flamenco & the Spanish Avant-Garde (Wesleyan), is a biography of the great modernist Spanish dance artist La Argentina. Her second book, Carmen, a Gypsy Geography (Wesleyan 2013), traces a genealogical history of the Gypsy flamenca dancer from the lands of the ancient Middle East to Hispano-Arab and Sephardic Spain. She is the National Director for Dance History for American Ballet Theater and Associate Professor of Theater & Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.