Unit
Overview
Paper
Three assigned:
How does the "gold section" of The Catherine Wheel (Tharp, 1981)
describe issues of gender and individuality? Full
Assignment ...
Dance
as a medium of cultural identity and fusion - 4 sessions
How can concert dance fuse culture together? A focus on dances in the Americas, with a consideration of Martha Graham's theatrical transformations of Native American rituals, and Katherine Dunham's adaptation of Santeria ritual How does concert dance confirm identity for minority populations? A focus on African dance forms in diaspora, with an examination of popular dance forms from the United States. Are African dance forms always configured with male drummers and female dancers?.
How can concert dance fuse culture together? A focus on dances in the Americas, with a consideration of Martha Graham's theatrical transformations of Native American rituals, and Katherine Dunham's adaptation of Santeria ritual How does concert dance confirm identity for minority populations? A focus on African dance forms in diaspora, with an examination of popular dance forms from the United States. Are African dance forms always configured with male drummers and female dancers?.
Unit
Assignments
read:
"New Worlds of Dance" in Dancing, pp 164-189
read:
"The War of the Quadrilles: Creoles vs. Americans (1804)" by
Maureen Needham in America Dancing pp 66-72.
read:
Jacqui Malone, "'Keep to the Rhythm and You'll Keep To Life':
Meaning and Style in African American Vernacular Dance" in Routledge
Dance Studies Reader pp 230-23
read:
Thompson, Robert Farris "Dance and Culture, An Aesthetic of the
Cool: West Africa Dance" in African Forum 2, no. 2; Fall
1996: pp 85-102
read:
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, "Barefoot and Hot, Sneakered
and Cool: Africanist Subtexts in Modern and Postmodern Dance" in Digging
the Africanist Presence: Dance and Other Contexts Greenwood, 1996: pp 47-58
Dances
of the Native Americans” in
America Dancing pp 16-50
