World Dance Cultures: From Ritual to Spectacle

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Publisher’s acknowledgements......Page 20
An introduction to World Dance Cultures......Page 23
1.1 Overview......Page 29
1.2 Bharatanatyam: concertizing a sacred form from South India......Page 32
1.2 Exploration: excerpt from Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India by Davesh Soneji......Page 56
1.3 Kathak: entertainment for Hindu Maharajas and Muslim Moghuls......Page 59
1.4 Kathakali: narrative dance theater from Kerala......Page 74
1.4 Exploration: excerpt from “Who Wears the Skirts in Kathakali?” by Diane Daugherty and Marlene Pitkow......Page 92
2 Bali and Java: From temple, to village, to court......Page 102
2.1 Overview......Page 103
2.2 The baris dancers: bodyguards of Balinese gods......Page 112
2.3 The sanghyang dedari: child mediums to the spirit realm......Page 121
2.4 The legong: when sacred dances become secular......Page 129
2.5 The calonarang: keeping a community in balance......Page 135
2.5 Exploration: excerpt from “Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali” by Ron Jenkins......Page 143
2.6 Javanese bedhaya: celestial palace dance......Page 146
2.6 Exploration: excerpt from The Dance that Makes You Vanish by Rachmi Diyah Larasati......Page 163
3.1 Overview......Page 173
3.2 Cambodia’s royal dancers: survivors of the Khmer Rouge......Page 175
3.2 Exploration: excerpt from “Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth” by Toni Shapiro-Phim......Page 191
3.3 Jingju: Chinese Beijing opera – stylized beauty, staged......Page 194
3.4 Mao’s Cultural Revolution and The Red Detachment of Women......Page 211
3.4 Exploration: excerpt from The Story of Dai Ailain by Richard Glasstone......Page 225
4.1 Overview......Page 235
4.2 Noh theater: entertaining samurai......Page 237
4.2 Exploration: excerpt from “Import/Export: Artistic Osmosis Between Japan, Europe, and the United States” by Patricia Leigh Beaman......Page 255
4.3 From pleasure women’s kabuki to Grand Kabuki Theater......Page 258
4.4 Butoh: Japan’s dance of darkness......Page 276
4.4 Exploration: excerpt from “Selections from the Prose of Kazuo Ohno” by Noriko Maehata......Page 292
5.1 Overview......Page 301
5.2 Hula kahiko: from Hawaiian royal courts to the global stage......Page 303
5.3 The Māori haka: a dance of defiance, a dance of welcome......Page 322
5.3 Exploration: excerpt from “Ko Mitimiti Ahau, I am (of) the Place, Mitimiti” by Jack Gray......Page 339
5.4 The gisalo: pathos and pain of the Bosavi-Kaluli of Papua New Guinea......Page 343
5.4 Exploration: excerpt from The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers by Edward Schieffelin......Page 358
6 Africa: Fertility festivals, death ceremonies, and ancestor worship......Page 368
6.1 Overview......Page 369
6.2 The Geerewol Festival of the Wodaabe: judging male charm and beauty......Page 370
6.2 Exploration: excerpt from Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty by Mette Bovin......Page 383
6.3 The Dogon dama ceremony: a collective funeral ritual......Page 386
6.4 The Mossi: yaaba sooré – the path of the ancestors......Page 404
6.4 Exploration: excerpt from Land of the Flying Masks by Christopher Roy......Page 415
6.5 The Egungun of Yorubaland: the ancestors descend......Page 420
7.1 Overview......Page 438
7.2 The zār ritual: ridding women of troublesome jinn......Page 439
7.2 Exploration: excerpt from Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zār Cult in Northern Sudan by Janice Boddy......Page 453
7.3 The sema: mystical dance of the Sufi Mevlevi dervish......Page 456
7.3 Exploration: excerpt from The City of the Sultan by Julia Pardoe......Page 471
7.4 Flamenco: a manifestation of cultures and passions......Page 474
8.1 Overview......Page 506
8.2 Political resistance: the Lakota Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973......Page 508
8.2 Exploration: excerpt from Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch and Paul Stekler......Page 528
8.3 Haitian Vodou: an Afro-Caribbean spiritual pathway......Page 531
8.3 Exploration: excerpt from “Afro-Caribbean Spirituality: A Haitian Case Study” by Karen McCarthy Brown......Page 550
8.4 Tango: from Argentinian dens of iniquity, to Parisian dance halls, and back......Page 553
Glossary......Page 583
Index......Page 623