Research Catalog

Title

Dance, human rights, and social justice : dignity in motion / edited by Naomi Jackson and Toni Shapiro-Phim.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Jackson, Naomi M.
• Phim, Toni Samantha, 1957-

Description

xxxv, 362 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays from more than fifteen countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession, choreography involving human rights as a central theme, the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses, and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression." "These groundbreaking essays-containing both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts - encompass a broad spectrum of issues, including slavery and the Holocaust; the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides and Israeli-Palestinian conflict; First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic; and discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections among a variety of settings, including refugee camps, courtrooms, the theatre, rehearsal studios, and university classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Dance > Sociological aspects
• Dance > Social aspects
• Dance > Political aspects
• Human rights
• Social justice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. 1. Regulatory moves. Roadblock / M. Rafeedie ; Practical imperative: German dance, dancers, and Nazi politics / M. Kant ; Plunge not into the mire of worldly folly: nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century religious objections to social dance in the United States / E. Aldrich ; Dancing Chinese nationalism and anticommunism: The embodiment of nationalism in Zaire / J. Huckstep ; Dance and human rights int he middle east, North Africa, and Central Asia / A. Shay ; Right to dance: Exotic dancing in the United States / J.L. Hanna ; The hidden authoritarian roots in western concert dance / R. Lakes ; Human rights and dance through an artist's eyes / Y. Wang --^
• pt. 2. Choreographing human rights. Fagaala / G. Acogny ; Your fight is our fight: Protest ballets in Sweden / C. Olsson ; Dancing in Paradise with Liz Lerman on 9/11 / L.F. Burnham ; What was always there / R. Lemon ; Cambodian dance and the individual artist / S.C. Shapiro ; Dancing against burning grounds: Notes on "From Sita: Lament, fury, and a plea for peace" / A. Chatterjea ; Human rights issues in the work of Barro Rojo Arte Escénico / C.D. Martínez (translated and edited by N.L. Ruyter) ; Requiem / L. Ponifasio ; Sardono: Dialogues with humankind and nature / S. Murgiyanto ; Adib's dance / G. Aldor --^
• pt. 3. Healing, access, and the experience of youth. Japanese butoh and my right to heal / J. Kajiwara ; Dancing in our blood: Dance/movement therapy with street children and victims of organized violence in Haiti / A.E.L. Gray ; Interactions between movement and dance, visual images, Etno, and physical environments: Psychosocial work with war-affected refugee and internally displaced children and adults (Serbia 2001-2002) / A.J. Singer ; Sudanese youth: Dance as mobilization in the aftermath of war / D.A. Harris ; Community dance: Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre as a vehicle for cultural emancipation / M. Fitzgerald ; Doing time: Dance in prison ; Balance and freedom: Dancing in from the margins of disability / W. Bessing --^
• pt 4. Kinetic transgressions. Exposure and concealment / N. Rowe ; The dance of life: Women and human rights in Chile / M. Agosín (translated by J. Molloy) ; Mediating Cambodian history, the sacred, and the earth / T. Shapiro-Phim ; No more starving int he attic: Senior dance artists advocate a Canadian artists' heritage resource centre / C. Anderson ; Dance and disability / A. Alessi, with S. Zolbrod ; Monuments and insurgencies in the age of AIDS / D. Gere ; If I survive: Yehudit Arnon's story as told to Judith Brin Ingber.

ISBN

• 9780810861497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810861496 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008022471

OCLC

• 228744392
• SCSB-11485198

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library