Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America (Music, by Pablo Vila,Adriana Cerletti,Silvia Citro,Carlos Molinero,Ana

Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

The lens of dance gives you a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban event. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the US, is a hugely developed hybrid of ballet, North American sleek dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. not like such a lot 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 in regards to the “Indian” dances they encountered through the New global. This was once very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to establish and eliminate the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the most important indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its ecu discovery.

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

Los angeles 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 l. a. Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour los angeles Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer l. a. complexité de ces chorégraphies.

Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea

The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent heritage. this present day territorial disputes within the sector - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it almost certainly some of the most risky issues of clash in Asia and hundreds of thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure beaches.