ABSTRACT

Australian dancer Beth Dean was classically trained but belonged to the “ethnic dance” tradition in which performers interpreted the dances of “primitive” others for the concert stage; her career reflected the trends in dance scholarship and practice of her era. This article compares her textual and performative works with other writers and practitioners in Australia and the rest of the world. It identifies Dean’s belief in an evolution of dance from primitive to classical, her positioning of classical ballet at the pinnacle of an imaginary hierarchy of dance, and her affirmation of universalist notions about dance.

中文翻译：

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贝丝·迪恩：澳大利亚“民族舞者”作品的方方面面

摘要

澳大利亚舞者贝丝·迪恩受过古典训练，但属于“民族舞蹈”传统，表演者在音乐会舞台上演绎“原始”他人的舞蹈；她的职业生涯反映了她那个时代舞蹈学术和实践的趋势。本文将她的文本和表演作品与澳大利亚和世界其他地区的其他作家和从业者进行了比较。它确定了迪恩对舞蹈从原始到古典的演变的信念，她将古典芭蕾定位在想象的舞蹈等级的顶峰，以及她对普遍主义舞蹈观念的肯定。