ABSTRACT This introduction to a curated volume of original essays on African-heritage partner dances presents their shared kinetic features as performative social practices arising from creolising processes in the Atlantic world. The expressive dimension of these creolised dances, particularly their dependence on the connection between two dancers, enables them to function as the embodied memory of and resistance to the racialized and gendered violence of the plantation, which, as the essays demonstrate through a range of interdisciplinary approaches, shape experiences of leisure, self-fashioning, and collective joy within the cities of the Atlantic rim and beyond. These structural and affective similarities between the dances examined in the volume, which include maxixe, lindy hop, tango, kizomba, salsa, and their predecessor, the creolised quadrille, confirm a circum-Atlantic entanglement of creolised expressive culture, the global spread of which is explicated through the theoretical concepts of kinetoscapes, alegropolitics, affiliative afromodernity, and fabulousness.

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环大西洋之间的联系及其全球动态景观：非洲遗产伙伴之舞

摘要这段精选的关于非洲遗产伴侣舞的原创文章的介绍介绍了它们共同的动感特征，这些特征是大西洋世界上的杂乱曲折过程所产生的表演社会实践。这些杂技舞蹈的表现力，尤其是它们对两位舞者之间联系的依赖，使他们能够对种植园的种族化和性别暴力进行具体的记忆和抵抗，正如论文通过一系列跨学科的研究所表明的那样。方法，塑造休闲体验，自我塑造以及在大西洋沿岸及周边城市的集体欢乐的经历。在本册中所考察的舞蹈之间的结构和情感相似之处包括maxixe，lindy hop，探戈，kizomba，salsa及其前身，