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Tapping the Margins: Feminist Research in Tap Dance History Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Margaret Morrison
The research project Tapping the Margins was undertaken by Ann Kilkelly and Mary Neth from 1999 through 2005 and focused on women in tap dance. Their scope was unprecedented: to analyze constructio...
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Introduction to issue 47.2 Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kate Mattingly
Published in Dance Chronicle (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indian Dance Criticism as Decolonial Post-Performance Performative Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Priya Venkat Raman
This paper examines dance reviews of transnational performances of Indian male dancers Uday Shankar and Ram Gopal from the 1930s to the 1950s. Throughout, this research seeks to contribute to metho...
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Methodologies and Missteps: Reflections on Research as a Generative Praxis Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Laura Pettibone Wright
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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A Flashlight in the Dark: Shaping Dance Canons by Kate Mattingly Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Fen Kennedy
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Ordering Movement, Ordering the Past Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Rachel Carrico
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Pluriversal Embodiment Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Rainy Demerson
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Interrogating Histories and Historicizing Dance Studies Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Kate Mattingly, Rainy Demerson
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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“Capoeira cannot be played alone”: Dancing Dialogues Around the World and on the Page Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Dasha A. Chapman
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Methods and Models: A Compelling Anthology for Researchers and Educators Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ariel Nereson
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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From Representation to Redistribution: Border Crossings Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Kate Mattingly, Elisabeth Motley
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Ariadne’s Thread: A Depth Psychology Exploration of Liminal Immanence in Dance/Movement Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Arianne MacBean
The ancient Greek myth of Ariadne provides clues about the vitality of movement––its expression and action––and how it evokes a concept of selfhood that does not venerate arrival. This article anal...
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James Baldwin’s Lean: Gratuitous Violence and Black Performativity in Take This Hammer Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Omar Benton Ricks
This article reads James Baldwin’s performative labor in the 1964 documentary film Take This Hammer as the staging of an engagement between Saidiya Hartman and Judith Butler’s contending approaches...
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This Ass is Magic: The Black Feminist Power of Twerking Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Mariah Johnson
Using discourse analysis and autoethnographic research, I center twerking as a Black dance and a Black feminist practice. My research challenges omissions in communication studies, which has tended...
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Crip Aesthetics and a Choreographic Method of Leakiness Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Elisabeth Motley
Drawing attention to the affordances and challenges of disability dance and choreography, most notably aesthetic ideals which are antithetical to disability knowing, this research seeks to instigat...
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Mapping as Historiographic Practice: The Ballet Landscape in Interwar Greece Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Anna Leon
This article proposes mapping as a tool for dance historiography, and presents a case study of ballet in interwar Greece to show mapping’s distinct attributes. Mapping supports critical dance histo...
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In Memoriam: Naomi Mindlin (1948-2022) Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Olive Demar
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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To Feel and to Move: Tracing the Borders of Dance Studies and Refugee Studies Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Visibility and Values: A Compelling Analysis of Dancing and Why It Matters Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Priya Vashist
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Expanding Butoh Studies: Now We Have a Chronicle Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Tanya Calamoneri
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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The Fate of La Feste: An Affective Reading of Maximilien Gardel’s Mirsa Ballets Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah
In 1781, ballet master Maximilien Gardel presented La Feste de Mirsa, a sequel to his 1779 ballet en action Mirza. Given the latter’s success, Opéra audiences anticipated another evening of praisew...
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Baladi and Beyond Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Leila Mire
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Reimagining Byzantine Dance Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Kathryn Dickason
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Unlocking the Beauty of Screendance: A Journey through History, Curatorial Practice, and Personal Reflections Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Jennifer Petuch
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Broken Promises: Developing a Practice of Listening and Attuning to Feminists in Breaking Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jason “J-Sun” Noer
Breaking prioritizes the value of respect, which is connected to the physical movements of the dance practice. However, despite promoting this value, Breaking faces a threat from within: unaddresse...
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How “modern” has German Modern Dance Remained?—The Case with the 2022 UNESCO Inscription Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Filip Petkovski
This research focuses on the process of heritagization and how it functions to both legitimize a dance practice and generate a new set of values for the practice. More specifically, I explore how t...
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Connections and Missed Connections: Russian Emigrés Bring Ballet to An American City (Chicago, 1924) Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Karen Eliot
At the turn of the twentieth century, many Russian dancers cast aside careers in the highly regarded Imperial Ballet for unknown futures in the West. Emigrating for a variety of personal and artist...
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Right to Refusal: Consent and Rejection in Social Swing Dancing Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Hannah Standiford
Abstract How has a small swing dance community navigated shifts in etiquette surrounding consent and refusal in social dancing? This research focuses on Pittsburgh’s swing dance community and the changes that have occurred between the 1990s and 2022. To illustrate shifts in requesting consent for dances, accepting or declining dances, and expressing discomfort during dances, this study draws from interviews
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Muslim Youth in K-pop Dance Practices: Performative Responses against Islamic Norms in Malaysia Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Sang Woo Ha
Abstract This article offers an ethnography of Malaysian youth who perform cross-gender K-pop dance. In the context of Malaysia’s hegemonic masculinity, I explore the wider cultural space within K-pop dance for nonnormative gender expression, which is usually stigmatized. Drawing on Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity, Kareem Khubchandani’s approach to Asian drag, and Erving Goffman’s stigma
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Usable for whom? Reflections on public, political art Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Holly Bass
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Around the Mirror Ball: The Globalization and Glocalization of Disco Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Elizabeth June Bergman
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Journeying Toward Center with the late Nancy Topf Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Kristin Marrs
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Becoming A Frame Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Megan V. Nicely
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Existence as Insistence: Dance Theatre of Harlem Chronicles an Organization’s Prescience Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Kate Mattingly
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Global Dance Histories and Contemporary Pedagogies: Alternative Routes Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Miya Shaffer
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Resituating Noverre within Enlightenment Encyclopedias Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Michelle LaVigne
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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The Unreconciled Dichotomy: Preservation and (Re)Creation of Dance Heritage in South Korea Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Sue In Kim
abstract This study explores controversies surrounding the application of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) policies to Korean traditional dance. In grappling with the emergent debates about ICH, I focus on how Korean dancers conceive of their own practices. Informed by the perspectives of practitioners, I argue that conflicts surrounding the Korean ICH system stem from the contrasting legal frameworks
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Ballet Pedagogy and a “Hard Re-Set”: Perspectives on Equitable and Inclusive Teaching Practices Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Kate Mattingly, Keesha Beckford, Zena Bibler, Paige Cunningham, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson
Abstract In her scholarship on pedagogy, Gloria Ladson-Billings describes COVID-19 as a call to re-set education using a more culturally relevant pedagogy. As ballet teachers and researchers working in higher education and pre-professional settings, we teach a form of dance often associated with the characteristics of white supremacy. Through this collaborative institutional ethnography, we generated
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Ruth Page: An American Original Gets Her Due Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ellen Chenoweth
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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“La Nijinska: Revealing and Constructing Legacy” Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Mara Mandradjieff
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Conjuring Lines of Flight in a World of Black Social Death Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Omar Ricks
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Encounters, Exchanges, and Ruptures: An Exhibition Catalog of Global Artists Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Mitsu Salmon
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Universalizing the Specific: Janet Collins’s Spirituals and Genesis Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Jessica Friedman
Abstract African American modern dancer and ballerina Janet Collins challenged conventions for representing race, gender, and religion in her Spirituals suite (1947) and Genesis (1965), works that brought together Jewish and African American spiritualities. Countering the assumption that only white dancers access the privilege to present themselves in universalizing ways, I argue that Collins used
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Status and Salary: Hiring a Ballet Troupe for the Opera Il Farnaspe (Siena, 1750) Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Colleen Reardon
Abstract This article mines newly discovered letters from a Sienese family archive to give insight into the artistic, economic, and psychological parameters that influenced the hiring of freelance ballerini to form a ballet troupe for an operatic production in Siena (Italy) in 1750, a period for which such information is scarce. By focusing on the contract negotiations and bargaining tactics between
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“My Walking is My Dancing”: The Relationship between Dance and Music in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Work Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Jonas Rutgeerts
Abstract Throughout her career the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has created different techniques to engage in an intimate relationship with musical compositions, using these compositions to drive the development of her choreographic oeuvre. I argue that walking can be defined as one of the main choreographic devices used in De Keersmaeker’s late works. In analyzing En Atendant (2010)
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Accounting and Accountability: How the NEA Funded Dance Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Colleen Hooper
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Social Ghosts and Collective Bodies in Rosemarie Roberts’ Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 grace shinhae jun
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Rooted Jazz Dance: A Path Forward Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Elliott Keller
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Dance and the Twilight of Capitalism Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Fouad Mami
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Falling Again and Again Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Lisa Jayne Wilson
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022)
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Dancing with the Stars and Stripes: Sensation as Spectatorial Choreography in Pope.L’s Trinket Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 J Dellecave
abstract Pope.L’s art exhibition Trinket (2015) featured an installation of an oversized US flag blown by high-powered wind machines. The artwork generated a choreography among viewers who inadvertently danced with the US flag, reversing fraught dynamics surrounding visibility and spectatorship for work by Black artists. Trinket called upon spectators to feel into sensation, rather than adopt a mode
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Queer Shadows of Balanchine’s Orpheus (1948) Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Steven Ha
Abstract This article examines the ballet Orpheus (1948), choreographed by George Balanchine, and the cultural milieu of queerness surrounding the ballet’s creation. Although Orpheus is known for helping to formally establish the New York City Ballet, the undercurrents of homosexuality in the ballet’s development have received less attention in the historical narrative. Additionally, the dancer Nicholas
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Why Don’t Choreographers Copyright Their Works? Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Francis Yeoh
abstract The paucity of reported case law on dance copyright indicates that choreographers have not been as active as other authors, such as composers or writers, in seeking the powers bestowed through copyright ownership. I examine the historical context of choreographers’ inability or reluctance to resort to litigation to establish their copyrights in light of the socio-economic and political factors
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Theater Dance’s Material Underneath Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Rebecca Chaleff
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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Dance as Radical Action: A Riveting Journey through Dance, Activism, and Global Politics Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Maria-Adriana Deiana
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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From Harming to Healing: Multifaceted Perspectives on Ballet Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Kate Mattingly
Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022)
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More than Meets the Eye: Towards Critical Institutional Research in Dance Studies Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Olive Demar
(2022). More than Meets the Eye: Towards Critical Institutional Research in Dance Studies. Dance Chronicle: Vol. 45, Critical Institutional Studies, pp. 1-6.
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Making Dance Work in West Africa: Women Artists in a Shifting Landscape of Institutional Patronage Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Lila Ann M. Dodge
Abstract This article considers the stakes articulated by French-speaking West African women who claim dance as work opens up critical perspectives on the global political economy of concert dance. African states encouraged creative dance work following independence, but in the era of structural adjustment, French state-affiliated institutions took the lead as foreign patrons for African contemporary
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Making the Museum Dance: Simone Forti’s Huddle (1961) and its Acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Megan Metcalf
Abstract In 2015, Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, a group of understated, equipment-based performances from 1960–1961, entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) as the museum’s first acquisition of historical dance works. This essay details Forti’s arrangements with MoMA for the Dance Construction Huddle, which complicated the already complicated proposition
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Forced Secularization and Postmodern Discourses within Contemporary Performance: Weaponizing Multicultural Rhetoric to Ratify Asymmetries among Dance Practitioners Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado, María Mendizábal
Abstract In the context of the multicultural and postmodern rhetoric of contemporary art festivals, we examine a case study in which the Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon appropriates Mapuche practices—the kawell tayil and the choike purrún—in her piece Monument 0.6: Landing (A Ritual of Empathy) (2017). We analyze the discursive and embodied dimensions of this borrowing and its harmful consequences