Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity

by Olaf Kuhlke (Editor), Adam M. Pine (Editor), Yuko Aoyama (Contribution by), Mary Lynn Babcock (Contribution by), France Joyal (Contribution by)

Overview

Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from the global diffusion of cultural traditions and practices. The collection portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces—stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments—are transformed and made meaningful by culturally diverse dances. Global Movements will be of interest to scholars of geography, dance, and global issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739171820
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/18/2014
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Olaf Kuhlke is associate professor of geography and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Adam M. Pine is assistant professor of geography and director of the Urban and Regional Studies Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Olaf Kuhlke and Adam M. Pine
Chapter 1: Cultural Survival as a Geographic Paradox: The Case of Flamenco, Yuko Aoyama
Chapter 2: Irishness and Step Dancing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Kristin Harris Walsh
Chapter 3: Dancing in Foam City: Berlin and the Viscous Embodiment of German National Identity at the Love Parade, 1989-2006, Olaf Kuhlke
Chapter 4: Human Kind in the Apex of Borders: Artistic and Expressive Communication in Projected Images, Dance, and Narrative, Mary Lynn Babcock and Lynnette Young Overby
Chapter 5: Tango: A Cognitive Companionship from the Street to the Classroom, France Joyal
Chapter 6: Salsa Cosmopolitanism: Situating the Dancing Body as Part of the Global Cosmopolitan Project, Adam M. Pine
Chapter 7: From Streetlights to Stagelights to Cyberity and Back: Dance in (Geographic) Space, Carla Walter and Steve Smith
Conclusion: Valorizing the Many Different Spaces of Dance: Co-opting the Cultural Choreography of Globalization, Adam M. Pine and Olaf Kuhlke

Editorial Reviews

Brimming with engaging ethnographic insight, Global Movements offers a series of sure-footed and lively explorations of the charged zone between identity, geography, and dance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in thinking critically about what is at stake when the cultural and the corporeal are choreographed through the spaces of moving bodies.

Derek McCormack

This book underscores the fact that dance is a geography and geography is a dance. By cross-pollinating the two disciplines, the authors produce a third wondrous hybrid. Their book is compulsory reading for all those who want to understand the place of dance.

Nigel Thrift Nigel Thrift

We all know globalization is a process of cultural amalgamation, but what does this imply at the level of bodies? This book breaks new ground in both dance/performance studies and cultural geography by asking how the global and the (inter)national are danced. Clearly, dancing is not only an eruption of sensual pleasure but condenses some of the most important sociopolitical processes at work in today’s world.

Arun Saldanha

This book underscores the fact that dance is a geography and geography is a dance. By cross-pollinating the two disciplines, the authors produce a third wondrous hybrid. Their book is compulsory reading for all those who want to understand the place of dance.

Nigel Thrift