Writing in 1829, a Russian critic referred to the art of ballet as an impossible project--impossible because it strives to give an expressive language to body movements, while completely avoiding spoken dialogue. This impossibility generated an a...Lasīt vairāk
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by...Lasīt vairāk
Funny Moves explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humor from t...Lasīt vairāk
In the mid-2000s, Russias government began to merge autonomous regions (okrugs), including the two regions held by its largest indigenous population, the Mongolic-speaking Buryats, into its Siberian administrative territories. As state institutio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253071187)
In the mid-2000s, the Russian government began to merge Siberias smallest Indigenous territories into larger administrative regions. Among Buryat Mongols living to the west of Lake Baikal the state promoted a policy of National Cultural Autonomy...Lasīt vairāk
Funny Moves explores the politics of dance humor in ten case studies found on stages, screens and streets of Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States. Moves found funny are the Other to dance because funniness emerges...Lasīt vairāk
Unmaking Contact interrogates contact, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies...Lasīt vairāk
