Improvisation in African-American vernacular dancing
Article Abstract:
The basic improvisational aesthetics that inform the practice of African-American vernacular dancing are discussed. As the different African-American communities in different geographic locations dance and communicate with each other, the meaning of the improvisational action changes.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 2001
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The Trianon and on: reading mass social dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada
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A Professor of theatre investigates on the mass social dancing that happened in the Southern Alberta during pivotal time for community formation. The view of gender, race, class and regional identity in Alberta in the 1930s and 1940s is presented.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 2001
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C'mon to my house: Underground-House dancing
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Underground-House dancing has grabbed a lot of media attention in the last couple of years. Raves and underground-dancing are similar in some ways but they differ in its function that lies in the nature of the altered state of the mind.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 2001
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