Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 3319703145
• ISBN 13: 9783319703145
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives. Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. It challenges the presumption that Blackness, Britishness or dance are monolithic entities, instead arguing that all three are living networks created by rich histories, diverse faces and infinite future possibilities. Through a variety of critical and creative essays, this book suggests a widening of our conceptions of what British dance looks like, where it appears, and who is involved in its creation.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Narratives in Black British Dance: An Introduction
2. Part I
3. 2. “I Don’t Do Black-Dance, I Am a Black Dancer”
4. 3. Dance Britannia: The Impact of Global Shifts on Dance in Britain
5. 4. Negotiating African Diasporic Identity in Dance: Brown Bodies Creating and Existing in the British Dance Industry
6. 5. Tracing the Evolution of Black Representation in Ballet and the Impact on Black British Dancers Today
7. 6. In-the-Between-ness: Decolonising and Re-inhabiting Our Dancing
8. Part II
9. 7. Trails of Ado: Kokuma’s Cultural Self-Defence
10. 8.  Moving Tu Balance: An African Holistic Dance as a Vehicle for Personal Development from a Black British Perspective
11. 9. ‘Why I Am Not a Fan of the Lion King’: Ethically Informed Approaches to the Teaching and Learning of South African Dance Forms in Higher Education in the United Kingdom
12. 10. Performativity of Body Painting: Symbolic Ritual as Diasporic Identity
13. 11. Dancehall: A Continuity of Spiritual, Corporeal Practice in Jamaican Dance
14. 12. Our Ethiopian Connection: Embodied Ethiopian Culture as a Tool in Urban-Contemporary Choreography
15. 13. Reflections: Snapshots of Dancing Home, 1985, 2010 and 2012
16. Part III
17. 14. Battling Under Britannia’s Shadow: UK Jazz Dancing in the 1970s and 1980s
18. 15. Caribfunk Technique: A New Feminist/Womanist Futuristic Technology in Black Dance Studies in Higher Education
19. 16. More Similarities than Differences: Searching for New Pathways
20. 17. Epistemology of the Weekend: Youth Dance Theatre
21. 18. Transatlantic Voyages: Then and Now

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