Dancing Communities Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City

by Hamera, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780230302334
• ISBN10: 0230302335
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption and vernaculars connecting individuals with little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities, the book, now in paperback with a new preface, suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work together.

Author Biography

JUDITH HAMERA is Professor and Head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the editor of Open Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies and co-editor of The Handbook of Performance Studies. She is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Lilla Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, and received her PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction: Dancing the City
Intimacies in Motion
Corporeal Chronotopes: Making Place and Keeping Time in Ballet
Saving Khmer Classical Dance in Long Beach
Dancing Other-Wise: Ethics, Difference and Transcendence in Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers
Conclusion: Dancing Communities - Ideas of Order, Queer Intimacies, Civic Infrastructure
References
Index