DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2023.2188872
Huafei Chen
{"title":"Reconsidering Isadora Duncan’s Global Legacy: The Reception of Duncan’s Writing and Dance in China","authors":"Huafei Chen","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2023.2188872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2188872","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reevaluates the reception of Isadora Duncan among Chinese intelligentsia, literati, and dancers in the first half of the twentieth century. Contextualizing Duncan’s autobiography My Life (1927) and choreography within global cultural production, I focus on the transculturation and hybridity generated through the artist’s transnational circulation to China. Far more than just a pioneer of modern dance, Duncan was a cultural icon that Chinese intellectuals, women writers, and dancers appropriated for their own political and cultural purposes.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"87 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49195207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2023.2189406
Holly Bass
{"title":"Usable for whom? Reflections on public, political art","authors":"Holly Bass","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2023.2189406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2189406","url":null,"abstract":"Drawn from Larne Gogarty’s doctoral dissertation, Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art offers a concise comparative history of New Deal political theater, dance, and photography juxtaposed with more recent works from the 1990s to 2000s. What results is a wellresearched, albeit limited, exploration of how large-scale, social justice-oriented art has evolved in the United States. Gogarty’s title references a concept that gained traction during the Depression, as politicians and community organizers sought to draw on the past as a galvanizing force to create a cohesive sense of community in a time of widespread hardship. That is to say, the past must be artfully reframed in order to make it “usable” toward other aims, whether that be galvanizing workers to join a labor union post-WWI or gathering community members in an economically divested Southern neighborhood in the early 2000s. While the book doesn’t necessarily make a convincing argument about art’s role in state formation, it does provide an engaging history of public, political art. Early in the book’s introduction, Gogarty defines the range of terminology used to describe artists who work with social relations as a source or medium, often artists who create work with “non-artists” (p. 9) from a particular social group or identity. Gogarty notes, “Some of the labels devised for this work include participatory art, collaborative art, socially engaged art, dialogical art, new genre public art, relational aesthetics, littoral art, collective artistic praxis and social practice” (p. 8). Choosing the term “social practice,” Gogarty explains this selection based on its wide acceptance with few attachments to particular scholars, artists, or curators. As a multidisciplinary, community-engaged artist, I have long held a healthy skepticism of these terms, especially the ways they come in and out of fashion, and their own usable past as a conduit for art market speculators to commodify what would generally be considered community activism with some level of aesthetic appeal. For instance, if the Black Panther","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"140 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46974882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2023.2188030
Sanghee Ha
{"title":"Muslim Youth in K-pop Dance Practices: Performative Responses against Islamic Norms in Malaysia","authors":"Sanghee Ha","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2023.2188030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2188030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers an ethnography of Malaysian youth who perform cross-gender K-pop dance. In the context of Malaysia’s hegemonic masculinity, I explore the wider cultural space within K-pop dance for nonnormative gender expression, which is usually stigmatized. Drawing on Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity, Kareem Khubchandani’s approach to Asian drag, and Erving Goffman’s stigma theory, I analyze the challenges of male Malay K-pop performers to Islamic norms and hegemonic masculinity. I argue that Muslim Malay K-pop dancers make use of performance as a context to traverse religious and gendered norms.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"102 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47070870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2023.2178792
M. Shaffer
{"title":"Global Dance Histories and Contemporary Pedagogies: Alternative Routes","authors":"M. Shaffer","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2023.2178792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2178792","url":null,"abstract":"When teaching dance history in the twenty-first century undergraduate classroom, how are dominant elisions within the Euro-American historical canon addressed? How might instructors integrate the choreographic voices, movement styles, and geographic regions that normative North American dance instruction—with its emphasis on ballet and modern dance, and (white) choreographers in the Global North—typically exclude? These questions frame Milestones in Dance History, edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, a textbook that insists on often-marginalized artistic lineages as essential to the dance historical field. Included within Routledge’s Milestones series, “a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down need-toknow moments in the social, political, cultural, and artistic development of foundational subject areas” (p. i), Milestones in Dance History provides a necessary response to ongoing critiques of university-level dance instruction in the United States. Eurocentric thinking, in addition to Euro-American dance styles, are dominant in post-secondary curricula, which obscures the multiplicity of global dance histories and their continued resonances. The book attempts to resolve these erasures by inviting students to, first, encounter dance practices that are typically excluded from canonical syllabi, and, second, interpret their respective histories as connected to each other, rather than geographically and culturally discrete. A “milestone” references moments of importance, denoting significant change or development. On a literal level, it evokes markings on a road or map, often indicating where progress has been made. Milestones in Dance History engages this concept as a primary structuring principle: each of the book’s ten chapters centers a milestone that “has shaped the different forms and genres of dance that we experience today” (p. xi). The chapters, which are “designed for weekly use” (p. i) in dance history courses, also cohere around the theme of “migration and political conflict” (p. x). Each author therefore prioritizes specific historical events, contextualizing their chosen","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"164 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46227129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2023.2177079
K. Mattingly
{"title":"Existence as Insistence: Dance Theatre of Harlem Chronicles an Organization’s Prescience","authors":"K. Mattingly","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2023.2177079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2177079","url":null,"abstract":"With the publication of Dance Theatre of Harlem, authors Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel offer the first book to document the history of the company. Established in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) is now led by Virginia Johnson, a former principal dancer. In addition to celebrating the legacy of DTH, Tyrus and Novosel illuminate the interwoven histories of ballet, dance education, civil rights movements, and social change. Tyrus was a member of DTH from 1977 to 1999, and Novosel is a musician, playwright, and composer. Their diverse backgrounds enrich the writing, shedding light on musical compositions and interdisciplinary collaborations. They have collected historical details, stories, and images that vivify the company’s accomplishments as well as setbacks. The book is a testament to the prescience of founders Mitchell and Shook and to the beauty and creativity of DTH. Photographs of dancers during performances, rehearsals, open houses, and touring engagements accompany nearly every page. Presenting DTH’s fifty years in chronological order, Tyrus and Novosel divide these five decades into three sections: History, Movement, and Celebration. The book’s organization deepens awareness of how DTH’s ideas and priorities have shifted and developed over time. Part 1, “History,” focuses on Mitchell’s family, upbringing, training, and career with New York City Ballet (NYCB), setting the stage for his establishment of DTH. Mitchell had to choose between attending Bennington College or the School of American Ballet (SAB), as both offered him a scholarship. He chose SAB. In 1960, George Balanchine asked Mitchell “to find a black girl with whom he could dance a pas de deux as the representatives of Africa. He called Mary Hinkson” (p. 16). Hinkson was the first Black woman to dance with NYCB. A chapter on Shook lays the groundwork for the pedagogical principles DTH developed and is followed by","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"159 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44065681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2022.2127612
Mitsu Salmon
{"title":"Encounters, Exchanges, and Ruptures: An Exhibition Catalog of Global Artists","authors":"Mitsu Salmon","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2127612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2127612","url":null,"abstract":"Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance & Protest is the title of both an exhibition that took place at the Museum Folkwang in 2021, and its catalog, which includes fourteen essays that examine a century of interdisciplinary exchange among dance, performance, and the visual arts. The catalog vividly chronicles expansive encounters between Europe, Asia, and North America, and its images take center stage. Through lush layouts and gorgeous photos of striking artworks, this wide book gives these images space to breathe, with singular works occupying multiple pages. This design vivifies the artists’ projects, and speaks to one of the most valuable contributions of this book: its inquiries into the role of documentation in histories of dance and performance. A closing essay by Walter Moser considers questions of documentation through archival records of Japanese post-World War II dance and performance groups, such as the Hi Red Center collaboration with Tokuji Murai, and Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata with Eikoh Hosoe. Moser examines a well-known photo book collaboration between Hijikata and Hosoe called Kamaitachi, and the images that helped create a mythology around Hijikata and cement his legacy. In both form and content, the catalog provokes important questions about how performances are documented, and for whom these images are created. The exhibition, which took place in Germany, and the catalog, which is printed in German and English, includes very few Asian, Eurasian, or Asian American writers. Perhaps including more of those voices could have strengthened the analysis of “exchange” between “East” and “West,” which seems to be a throughline of the publication. I use quotes around these terms because they imply a particular dichotomy, homogenization, and static center. The essays primarily present an encyclopedic archive of varying art and performance movements between Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as notable meetings and collaborations among artists. What seems to","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"82 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41918743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2022.2123693
E. Chenoweth
{"title":"Ruth Page: An American Original Gets Her Due","authors":"E. Chenoweth","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2123693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2123693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"66 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47555168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2022.2154504
Sue-in Kim
{"title":"The Unreconciled Dichotomy: Preservation and (Re)Creation of Dance Heritage in South Korea","authors":"Sue-in Kim","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2154504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2154504","url":null,"abstract":"abstract This study explores controversies surrounding the application of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) policies to Korean traditional dance. In grappling with the emergent debates about ICH, I focus on how Korean dancers conceive of their own practices. Informed by the perspectives of practitioners, I argue that conflicts surrounding the Korean ICH system stem from the contrasting legal frameworks of collective ownership and intellectual property rights. The tensions within the ICH framework put Korean traditional dance professionals in the challenging role of negotiating between cultural preservation and artistic innovation.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"20 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49447188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2022.2120314
O. Ricks
{"title":"Conjuring Lines of Flight in a World of Black Social Death","authors":"O. Ricks","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2120314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2120314","url":null,"abstract":"It is not often that an academic text takes you on a journey. fahima ife’s book of essays and poetry, Maroon Choreography, invites us to theorize not by defining and analyzing but rather by inhabiting an undocumented past of escape from slavery that links to present-day escapes from slavery’s afterlife. In this process of imagining, the text engages with an important conversation within Black studies, critical theory, and performance studies. Maroon Choreography “attempts to move outside the blackness-asenslavement narrative, to move inside a collective Black interior by way of breathing” (p. xii). The author’s poetic description of their own present-day flight into the bayou leads us into a kind of subjunctive past world—a world that might have been, a world of seven Black Indigenous escapees who (might have) refused the choreographies pressed on them by the increasingly mechanized plantation economies of the 17th century North American colonies. Many elements of the text bring us back to this theme of escape—imagined flight that we nonetheless know must have happened, whether in big or small events, because Black and Indigenous people have survived the long and ongoing terror of enslavement and genocide that is baked into the very structure of the modern world. In a sense, that flight, that moving “outside the blackness-as-enslavement narrative” and “inside a collective Black interior,” while never strictly defined, looks like many things in this text. In the chapter “recrudescence,” for example, it looks like the author having “a single encounter—a conversation and an erotic mo(ve)ment i shared with a friend” (p. 83) in which they “slipped inside the wild open secret of the marsh” (p. 86) and “... blackness/glistens and slips inside/night’s moist opening/listens to night/call light to life memory” (p. 5). Elsewhere, ife names some of the means of flight found repeatedly in Black life across multiple times and spaces within modernity: “the backwoods fugue, the juke joint, the hush","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"78 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48124313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANCE CHRONICLEPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2022.2133908
Michelle Lavigne
{"title":"Resituating Noverre within Enlightenment Encyclopedias","authors":"Michelle Lavigne","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2133908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2133908","url":null,"abstract":"How do ideas, theories, and definitions move across time? How do words attain social and cultural traction? How are practices learned or passed along? Some kinds of knowledge are often taken for granted, as if they have always been around. Take, for example, Jean-Georges Noverre. Generally, Noverre is credited with ushering in ballet as a lauded eighteenth century art form and practice with the publication of his ballet theories and training methods in Les Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets (1760). In Theories of Ballet in the Age of Encyclop edie, Olivia Sabee disrupts the standard narrative around Noverre’s status as the bearer of eighteenth century ballet. She does so by tracing Noverre’s writings on ballet within “enlightenment encyclopedia editors’ attempts to define ballet and dance” and situates ballet “within Enlightenment encyclopedia publishing in Francophone Europe’’ (p. 3). Sabee narrates the historical shift of ballet from being a popular object of inquiry to a “less compelling object of inquiry for intellectuals” (p. 4) during the eighteenth century. By doing so, Noverre’s work is seen not as a singular event, but as a movement of ideation that involves other writers and editors. The book is a technical feat in locating how knowledge of ballet and definitions change within texts and across contexts. Sabee accomplishes this feat by highlighting the work of referencing, citing, and borrowing, and offers insights for readers interested in Noverre’s writings, early ballet history, and Enlightenment encyclopedia publishing. Sabee analyzes the circulation of Noverre’s ideas and the consequences of such circulation, making Theories of Ballet in the Age of Encyclop edie a valuable resource for scholars focused on dance, documentation, and communication.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"46 1","pages":"70 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41723851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}