Transmigratory moves : dance in global circulation : conference proceedings, Congress on Research in Dance, October 26-28, 2001 / [edited by] Janice LaPointe-Crump.

A collection of edited papers provided by those authors who chose to contribute their papers as a record of the conference.

Conference sponsors and venues: The Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts; Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University; Judson Memorial Church; The Kitchen; Apple, 17 Waverly Place.

Includes bibliographical references.

v. 1. Congress on research in dance -- Open bodies: (x) change of identity in Capoeira and contact improvisation -- Fusion, tradition in movement -- Feeling and connection: a qualitative study of dance movement -- Transforming Paulo Freire's liberatory pedagogy into pedagogy for dance -- Cultural borrowing and appropriation be damned: issues in the ethno-asethetics of the urban English dancing landscape -- Researching the residency: British dance goes contemporary -- Musical reconversion: the national legacy of the Pasillo's productive ambiguity -- Healing and performance: southern Italian tarantella -- Connected dance: distributed performance across time zones -- The shattered body -- Lindas Odaliscas: Afro-orientalism in Brazilian belly dancing -- Historical re-entactment: fact or fiction? Can we achieve historical accuracy when re-entacting period social dance? -- Chop suey dances -- St Denis and Butoh: dances of light and darkness -- "No, no; I'm looking for the real Balinese dance": the pleasures and pitfalls of researching dance in a transmigatory world -- From passacaglia to body automatic ... : embodying the human and posthuman -- "On the outside looking in and loving it learning": a philosophical look at the position of women of color in dance studies and dance studies in Academia: a study within a study -- Out of context: exploring the use of gesture in Bharata Natyam -- Somatics in global circulation -- Teaching conditions theory -- Using geography information software to teach Hula activities from Hawaii to Texas -- Building shared east/central European cultural partnerships: agenda, inter-region and with the U.S. -- Towards a globalization of dance research: the scholarly disciplines -- Movement dictionary of Okinawan dance: as a digital database of Asian-Pacific dance research -- Vaslav Nijinksy in western imagination -- The lindy hops the Atlantic: the jitterbug and jive in Britain, 1939-1945 -- Placing our (disabled) selves: everyday practices, map-making and embodied syntax -- Cultures in dance institutions -- Nature as essence: Al Huang's east-west synthesis in modern dance -- Traveling with tango: an ethnographer's dance -- Where the African disapora and western Canada meet: a case study of decidedly jazz danceworks -- Fusion: globalising the local and localising the global: the case of the lindy and other fusion dances/musics -- Dancing in Utopia -- Defining the African American presence in postmodern dance from the Judson Church era to the 1990s -- Transitions of dancers and choreographers from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University to the profession -- Transitions of dancers and choreographers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to the profession -- Where Africa meets Europe: Afro-colonial influences as seen in the tradition of the mirrored devils of Panama -- An encounter with otherness: the relation of the dancer and the choreographer -- Yup'ik dance traditions: innovation and survival -- Inventing tradition: the global development of Irish dance -- Accommodating indivudalism in socialism: the Guangdong Modern Dance Company -- v. 2. Proceedings supplement -- 2001 CORD honor award receipients -- CORD conference schedule -- Officers of the Congress on Research in Dance -- A dispora of Native American dance -- The convergence of orientalism and Parisian occultism in the dances of Valentine de St. Point.

This year's conference explores the ways in which dance forms circulate across communities, regions and nations, acquiring new meanings as they travel. While the term "globalization" has gained currency in scholarly debates of recent years, the dispersion of performance practices is hardly a new phenomenon. Thus, the conference includes both historical and contemporary analyses of dances' migrations. What happens when dances migrate? It is common knowledge that founding figures in European and Euro-American modern dance appropriated Asian movement vocabularies in their choreographies. But scholars are only beginning to examine the ways in which Latin American, African, and Asian "fokloric" dance convention has been inflected by European concert dance training and stage practice, as well as MTV choreographers. By focusing on the circulation of movement styles, pedagogies and performance conventions, we hope to trouble some of the categoric distinctions which have tended to divide dance research: between "Western" and "non-Western", "classical" and "folkloric", and "ritual", "social" and "theatrical" genres. Arguably, the histories of many contemporary dance forms are more complex than such restrictive categories would admit ...

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