Global Movements

Dance, Place, and Hybridity

Contributions by Yuko Aoyama, Mary Lynn Babcock, France Joyal, Olaf Kuhlke, Lynnette Young Overby, Adam M. Pine, Steve Smith, Kristin Harris Walsh, Carla Walter Edited by Olaf Kuhlke, Adam M. Pine

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Publication date:

18 December 2014

Length of book:

210 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739171837

Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from the global diffusion of cultural traditions and practices. The collection portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces—stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments—are transformed and made meaningful by culturally diverse dances. Global Movements will be of interest to scholars of geography, dance, and global issues.

Introduction, Olaf Kuhlke and Adam Pine
Chapter 1: Cultural Survival as a Geographic Paradox: The Case of Flamenco, Yuko Aoyama
Chapter 2: Irishness and Step Dancing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Kristin Harris Walsh
Chapter 3: Dancing in Foam City: Berlin and the Viscous Embodiment of German National Identity at the Love Parade, 1989-2006, Olaf Kuhlke
Chapter 4: Human Kind in the Apex of Borders: Artistic and Expressive Communication in Projected Images, Dance, and Narrative, Mary Lynn Babcock and Lynnette Young Overby
Chapter 5: Tango: A Cognitive Companionship from the Street to the Classroom, France Joyal
Chapter 6: Salsa Cosmopolitanism: Situating the Dancing Body as Part of the Global Cosmopolitan Project, Adam Pine
Chapter 7: From Streetlights to Stagelights to Cyberity and Back: Dance in (Geographic) Space, Carla Walter and Steve Smith
Conclusion: Valorizing the Many Different Spaces of Dance: Co-opting the Cultural Choreography of Globalization, Adam Pine and Olaf Kuhlke

Brimming with engaging ethnographic insight, Global Movements offers a series of sure-footed and lively explorations of the charged zone between identity, geography, and dance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in thinking critically about what is at stake when the cultural and the corporeal are choreographed through the spaces of moving bodies.