Folkdans

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with ...

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Myanmar (Burma) exists in a timewarp and since recent political changes is becoming one of the most visited countries in the world. The country is eighty-seven per cent buddhist, studded with monastries, pagodas, dirt-track roads, oxcarts and eleg...

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Disciplines represented include philosophy, humanistic studies, dance ethnology, ethnomusicology, art history, and comparative historiography.

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Dance in India has been deemed sacred because of its innate capacity to visualise and actualise the deepest philosophical concepts through gestures, movements and the art of suggestion. Immediate collective transcendence is possible only through d...

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Manipuri, the classical dance from the eastern-most end of India, is marked by a delicacy that is steeped in tradition. The book takes one through the subtle nuances of the form of the supernatural to the mythological, concerned as it is with the ...

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The object of the present work is to develop a method for a structural analysis of European chain and round dance patterns with a view to establishing a categorisation of these dances according to their basic step patterns. This attempt has never ...

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De låtar jag presenterar här är alla skrivna, eller nedtecknade i början på 80-talet, men har sedan blivit liggande och inte spelats eller visats upp. I samband med att jag planerade ett program med Sundsjölåtar, till Sigrid Edlers minne, så hitta...

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print ...

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The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine in order to uncover its past. Since the rebi...

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In Cambodia, classical dance is the quintessence of the country's identity. An art form that was religious in origin, its traditions date back more than a thousand years to the great Khmer empire. Dancers performed in temples at Angkor and were th...

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Until the mid -nineteenth century, the Arab culture did not know the art of theater, which was prevalent in Europe and which started from the stage of pagan myths in the time of ancient Greek civilization, and developed in the religious theater in...

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Considering the paradoxical position of al-raqs al-baladi or belly dance in Egyptian social life, as both a vibrant and a contested cultural form, this issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science considers the impact of wider socio-cultural and politi...

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Sonia Abadi recorre los múltiples espacios vinculados con el tango dejando en ellos su inconfundible señal. Desde la escritura, el canto y el baile, su minuciosa observación y creatividad atraen la atención tanto de los amantes del tango como ...

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Este libro presenta una recopilación de rondas, juegos y canciones Latinoamericanas, empapadas de lo popular, la tradición y el folklore de cada paÿs. Contiene los audios de las canciones de los juegos, con arreglos musicales que utilizan múlt...

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With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the n...

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With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the n...

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Imagine an assignment in college as a dance major opening a door and leading you to a life-long mission after just one performance. Anna Harsh made a vision board in 6 th grade about dancing professionally, traveling to Italy, and meeting the Pope...

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Anna Harsh, dancer and Italian American takes a trip to Italy with her mother and brother as a child that sets her on a path which changes her life forever.The Italian Dance Quest is a travel memoir of an adventure that has made a lasting impact o...

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