Contemporary dance / volume editors Yvette Hutchinson & Chukwuma Okoye ; reviews editor, Sola Adeyemi ; series editors, Yvette Hutchison; Chukwuma Okoye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchison, Yvette, editor.

Okoye, Chukwuma, editor.

Adeyemi, Sola, editor.

Series:

African theatre ; 17.

African theatre ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Africa.

Dance.

Modern dance.

Africa.

Modern dance--Africa.

Physical Description:

xxii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, [2018]

Summary:

To date, scholars have tended, with a few exceptions, to write about African dance in primarily ethnographic terms. This collection seeks to challenge this pattern and expand dance research by engaging with the aesthetics and socio-political impact of dance for communities in and out of Africa in an increasingly global context. Contributors to this issue look at the impact that specifically situated indigenous dance forms have had on the development of new forms locally, and the reciprocal impact of local and international infrastructures, including funding bodies, tourism and festivals. African Theatre 17 examines how dance is contributing to a particularly African interculturalism, while analysing the issues of representation of Africa in a postcolonial context. Articles address the efficacy of dance to engage audiences with disavowed issues regarding gender, sexuality and dis/ability both within and beyond Africa. Highlights include a dance photo essay on F.O.D. Gang's 2017 site-specific street performance "Untitled" in Lagos, a new non-themed section, and the playscript Lunatic! by Zimbabwean playwright Thoko Zulu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781847011879

184701187X

OCLC:

1061301696