Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice Dignity in Motion

by Jackson, Naomi; Shapiro-Phim, Toni; Acogny, Germaine; Agosín, Marjorie; Aldor, Gaby; Aldrich, Elizabeth; Alessi, Alito; Anderson, Carol; Bessing, Wyatt; Burnham, Linda Frye; Chatterjea, Ananya; Chen, Ya-ping; Martínez, César Delgado; Fitzgerald, Mary; Ger

• ISBN13: 9780810861497
• ISBN10: 0810861496
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-06
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays from more than fifteen countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession, choreography involving human rights as a central theme, the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses, and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Regulatory Moves
Roadblock (Journal Excerpt, November 26, 2001)	p. 3
Practical Imperative: German Dance, Dancers, and Nazi Politics	p. 5
Plunge Not into the Mire of Worldly Folly: Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Religious Objections to Social Dance in the United States	p. 20
Dancing Chinese Nationalism and Anticommunism: The Minzu Wudao Movement in 1950s Taiwan	p. 34
Animation Politique: The Embodiment of Nationalism in Zaire	p. 51
Dance and Human Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia	p. 67
Right to Dance: Exotic Dancing in the United States	p. 86
The Hidden Authoritarian Roots in Western Concert Dance	p. 109
Human Rights and Dance through an Artist's Eyes	p. 131
Choreographing Human Rights
Fagaala	p. 137
Your Fight Is Our Fight: Protest Ballets in Sweden	p. 140
Dancing in Paradise with Liz Lerman on 9/11	p. 154
What Was Always There	p. 156
Cambodian Dance and the Individual Artist	p. 166
Dancing against Burning Grounds: Notes on From Sita: Lament, Fury, and a Plea for Peace	p. 168
Human Rights Issues in the Work of Barro Rojo Arte Escenico	p. 188
Requiem	p. 200
Sardono: Dialogues with Humankind and Nature	p. 204
Adib's Dance	p. 212
Healing, Access, and the Experience of Youth
Japanese Butoh and My Right to Heal	p. 217
Dancing in our Blood: Dance/Movement Therapy with Street Children and Victims of Organized Violence in Haiti	p. 222
Interactions between Movement and Dance, Visual Images, Etno, and Physical Environments: Psychosocial Work with War-Affected Refugee and Internally Displaced Children and Adults (Serbia 2001-2002)	p. 237
Sudanese Youth: Dance as Mobilization in the Aftermath of War	p. 253
Community Dance: Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre as a Vehicle for Cultural Emancipation	p. 256
Doing Time: Dance in Prison	p. 270
Balance and Freedom: Dancing in from the Margins of Disability	p. 285
Kinetic Transgressions
Exposure and Concealment	p. 291
The Dance of Life: Women and Human Rights in Chile	p. 296
Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth	p. 304
No More Starving in the Attic: Senior Dance Artists Advocate a Canadian Artists' Heritage Resource Centre	p. 323
Dance and Disability	p. 329
Monuments and Insurgencies in the Age of AIDS	p. 333
If I Survive: Yehudit Arnon's Story, as Told to Judith Brin Ingber	p. 342
Index	p. 345
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 353
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