Author: Bessie Evans
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-06-08
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0486145506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps Native American groups have used to express ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée.
Author: Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780816647767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada's Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author: Jamake Highwater
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Reginald Laubin
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing
Author: Charlotte Heth
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781563730214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of essays on Indian dance in North America and its contemporary expression and meaning.