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Berson, Jessica.

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Building bodies politic: Community dance in the contemporary United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Building bodies politic: Community dance in the contemporary United States./
Author:	Berson, Jessica.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4217.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-12A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3200098
ISBN:	9780542469121

Building bodies politic: Community dance in the contemporary United States.
Berson, Jessica.

Building bodies politic: Community dance in the contemporary United States. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4217.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005.

Community dance is a mode of dance practice and performance that expands our notions of what dance is and who can do it. Through documenting, describing, and analyzing a range of projects, I attempt to develop a framework within which to consider this emerging field. Using my personal experiences with intergenerational and youth dance performances as a jumping-off point, I examine several different models of community dance, including the related field of somatics; Rudolf Laban's lay movement choirs in the 1920s and 1930s; the dance rituals of Anna Halprin; the performances of several youth dance companies; intergenerational works like those of Liz Lerman and Stephen Koplowitz; and Pat Graney's "Keeping the Faith" prison project in a women's correctional facility. All of these artists believe that dance is more than an aesthetic experience, and they share a deeply held conviction in the power of movement to affect both personal and political change. However, their approaches to making and presenting community-based work vary widely and produce different types of results.

ISBN: 9780542469121Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Building bodies politic: Community dance in the contemporary United States.
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520 $a Rather than arriving at a concrete definition of this phenomenon, my research has generated a sense of community dance as a diverse practice that coalesces around shared questions: how do artistic intentions interact with social and political goals? How do groups of people moving together generate meaning? What are the relationships between individual transformation and communal development? What happens to dance performance when it is expanded to include people usually excluded from the concert stage? Throughout this dissertation I explore these questions with the twin goals of bringing critical attention to an under-examined field and advocating for beneficial models for future practical work. In order to do both, I interrogate the rhetoric of natural or authentic movement that pervades much community dance discourse, and argue for a more self-reflective, pluralistic, and contextualized approach.
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