Dance Theatre in Ireland: Revolutionary Moves by A. McGrath

Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

The lens of dance delivers a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban event. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the United States, is a hugely advanced hybrid of ballet, North American sleek dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. in contrast to so much dance kinds, técnica was once created deliberately with executive backing.

Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative)

From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, 15th- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and tourists wrote concerning the “Indian” dances they encountered through the New international. This used to be very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to establish and get rid of the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the biggest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its ecu discovery.

Danses et concepts en Océanie (Portes océanes) (French Edition)

L. a. danse demeure encore l'une des productions culturelles les plus fortes dans le Pacifique. Loin d'être de simples manifestations folkloriques, les danses océaniennes ont diverses fonctions. Des exemples pris au répertoire kanak pour los angeles Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour los angeles Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer los angeles complexité de ces chorégraphies.

Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea

The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent historical past. this present day territorial disputes within the quarter - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it probably the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and hundreds of thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure seashores.