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Dancing Culture Religion

By Sam Gill

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2012
ISBN
073917472X, 9780739174722
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2042300 bytes)
Series
Studies in Body and Religion
Pages
228\230
Time added
2017-05-04 12:50:49
Dance;Ballet;Ballroom;Choreography;Classical;Folk;Practices & Sacred Texts;Religious Art;Religious S

Description

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing, self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of “dancing,” the structurality of all dances.

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