Strolling through the streets of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, an urban observer happens on an advertisement for the Folies-Bergère, a music hall and revue theater (fig. 1). Illustrated on this poster is a slim, captivating woman; her posterior is exposed, and she is on her tiptoes in heels, coyly look-ing back at the spectator. Her flowing hair creates the impression that she is…
Funk and disco era California dancing demonstrates a dynamic fluidity of stylistic boundaries, reflective of dancers’ travels within and across neigh-borhoods, cities, and regions. By way of everyday people’s movements of migration and dislocation, physical and imaginative wandering, vernacular dances trace circuitous routes, emerge from multiple centers, and prolifer ate in re…
Among what some have described as a domination of dance and chore-ography within the recent performative turn in the museal sector, defini-tions, specificities, and careful framing have often been lacking.5 Various iterations of dance in the gallery have included adaptations of stage-based works for the new context, works made for proscenium theaters located in multi-arts centers (such as t…
Through their emphasis on innovation, Chinese dance practitioners interpret their research to create new forms. The removal of singing or speech in Shao’s sleeve dance choreography represents her obvious departure from xiqu, in which song and speech are usually considered essential to a complete performance. The rhythmical mapping of Shao’s classroom choreography onto e…
Kebudayaan merupakan warisan fakta-fakta budaya yang memiliki makna apabila dituangkan melalui konsep pikir, perasaan, berkeindahan secara bebas. Dengan demikian, kebudayaan dapat membentuk tingkah laku manusia yang harmonis secara bebas. Kebudayaan pada dasarnya merupakan proses mencapai tingkah laku yang sempurna. Kaitan berkebudayaan dengan kehidupan bermasyarakat atau berkebangsaan sebagai…
This book does not deal with all forms of dance equitably; it is primarily about the movements of classical ballet, not because of a judgment as to the inherent value or worth of that style of dance, but because of the relatively well defined and accepted “vocabulary” of movements and positions. Although there are variations in the style with which balletic movements are carried out by diff…