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Unit Overview

        
                 

Paper One assigned:
How does the dance Revelations (Alvin Ailey, 1960) convey concepts of religion and social order?
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  Dance as an expression of religious worship -3 sessions
 How has American concert dance been inspired by religious dances of the world? A focus on Indian dance forms, with a consideration of Ruth St. Denis and her Westernized "Indian" dances.		      
                 
   

Unit Assignments - Read

        
                 
      read: "Lord of the Dance" in Dancing, pp 36-69      
                 
      read: "Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance" by P. Sterling Stuckey (Dancing Many Drums, DeFrantz, ed., U Wisc Press, 2002)      
   

Unit Assignments - View

        
                 
    view: "Lord of the Dance" Dancing      
                 
      view: Alvin Ailey, Revelations (1960)       

 

 OTHER VERSIONS  

Revelations Part I (1986)

Revelations Part II (1986)

 
         
      view: Ruth St. Denis films