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Asian dance traditions often emphasize storytelling and convey deep cultural narratives through movements and expressions. Many Asian dance forms have strict rules regarding posture, movement quality, and rhythm, which are essential for conveying the intended meaning.
“A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production.”
Several of the following chapters articulate how Asian American choreographers, dancers, and artists continue to navigate self-representation as Asian Americans, given external pressures to enact an essentialized ideal of Asian America.
The intertwined history of American art and dance is even more revealing, more visually complex, more culturally nuanced, and more interesting than has yet been acknowledged by historians of either dance or art.
18 lis 2021 · Dance has been part of human history since its earliest origins, bringing transcendence to spiritual rituals and creating bonds within communities. Dance styles have changed through history, but dance itself remains one of the most expressive physical art forms.
East Asian arts, the visual arts, performing arts, and music of China, Korea (North Korea and South Korea), and Japan. (The literature of this region is treated in separate articles on Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.)
26 lis 2018 · George Washington Cable's 19th-century description of Congo Square and Charles Dickens's visit to a New York dance hall make for pointed reading against Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's...
