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Through the analysis of two years of ethnographic observations and 40 in-depth interviews with a collective of Black and Puerto Rican exotic dancers (referred to herein as Divine Dancers) who perform exotic dance for other women, this article explores how

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The text invites to reflect on performance procedures mediated in four conceptual letters, written as part of the project @body. preexistente, which comprised, in its totality, the creation of videos transmitted and produced in encounters that took place

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This essay asks what the figure of the Hollywood dance-in-a dancer who performed in place of a star prior to filming and who assisted the choreographer in the creation of dance numbers-can reveal about the reproduction of corporeality as an operation that

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Dance plays an important role in Jewish culture, yet it is frequently relegated to the margins of eastern European Jewish performing-arts research. Folk dance documentation is difficult in the best of circumstances, a it Yiddish dance poses a particular c

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Site dance performance offers creative opportunities for social and environmental activism. Conversely, social and environmental activism is becoming increasingly performative in seeking to evocatively engage a wide range of community members in both loca

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In this article I explore the potential of site-based dance and performance to influence and inform subjective, cartographic processes of connecting and situating oneself in urban locations. 'Vernacular mapping' is explored as a process by which subject

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Dance performance reviews (D. P. reviews) are one document type in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). In this paper we analyze D. P. reviews in Web of Science from 1992 to 2016 in terms of their languages, publication outputs, authors and, jour

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In the Maya art of the Late Classic period we find a very singular representation, people dancing with snakes. Although its meaning is not entirely clear, it is possible to conjecture, given the symbolism of the snake, that this dance represents the contr

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The choreographic composition, as it was configured in the works of the choreographers until 1996, produced multiple problems to the traditional folk dance. One of the most important, was the devastating result generated on its essential elements, reachin

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This article discusses the potentials of the dancing body in peace education seen from a transrational perspective. The author explores how the multifaceted and creative body as worked with in the conscious dance and movement practice Open Floor can be ta

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This article details the unique pairing of dance and writing, the likes of which are often considered two very different beasts. It examines how approaches to movement improvisation have been used to form and inform innovative methods of entering into the

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The article presents an analysis of the dance gestures and the geometry of dance as ritual and ceremonial heritage of Tuvans. Dance is understood as an integral cultural phenomenon with its own rituals and ceremonial, as well as motions, posture and gestu