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9780486427003

Native American Dance Steps

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486427003

  • ISBN10:

    0486427005

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-04
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps that certain Native American groups have used to express their dance ideas from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourree. Similarities to Oriental dances, classical ballet, Spanish and Russian variants are considered. 20 black-and-white illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
F. W. Hodge
Foreword xvii
Part One PROLOGUE
3(42)
Part Two SOME CHARACTERISTIC INDIAN DANCE STEPS
Elements of the Dance
11(4)
Abbreviations, etc.
15(1)
A Highly Characteristic Movement
15(4)
The Skip
19(1)
The Jump
20(1)
A Jump Step
20(2)
Jumping on Both Feet Simultaneously (Apache Devil-Dance Step)
22(1)
A Jump from One Foot to the Other
23(2)
A Hop Step
25(1)
A Step from the ``Snowbird'' Dance
26(3)
A ``Comanche'' Step
29(2)
A Tap Step
31(2)
A Turn with Taps
33(2)
A ``Two-step'' or War-Dance Step
35(3)
An Indian Form of the Pas de Bourree
38(2)
A Sioux Step
40(1)
A Hopi Step
40(5)
Part Three EXAMPLES OF INDIAN DANCE OF THE SOUTHWEST
45(56)
Eagle Dance
49(12)
War Dance
61(3)
Sun Dance
64(9)
Matachines
73(15)
A Yebichai Dance Fragment
88(5)
Dog Dance
93(8)
Index 101

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