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Dance Critics Look at World Dance,
By Dance Professor (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World (Hardcover)
This text is a compilation of interviews, panel discussions, and essays on the dance critic's role in writing about dance from cultures outside the United States, Western Europe, and Canada. Each selection investigates the relationship between audience and performer when the dance viewed is from a different world culture and the context may not be understood.
Each essay is thoughtful and is useful as a course text in dance criticism and/or aesthetics. It's not without controversy, though. For instance, the essay by Jawole Willa Jo Zolar fairly crackles with its attack on unacknowledged racism. June Vail's chapter titled, "What the Words Say: Watching American Critics Watch World Dance" is enlightening. I particularly like her final sentences summation- "Critics are ethnic, too. Watching World Dance sometimes means watching ourselves." |
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Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World by David Gere (Hardcover - Oct. 1995)
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