The Oxford handbook of Jewishness and dance / edited by Naomi M. Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Naomi M., editor.

Pappas, Rebecca, editor.

Phim, Toni Samantha, 1957- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects--North America.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects--Europe.

Dance--Social aspects--Israel.

Jewish dance--North America.

Jewish dance.

Jewish dance--Europe.

Jewish dance--Israel.

Dance--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 739 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of Jewishness and dance

Jewishness and dance

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Focusing on North America, Europe, and Israel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this handbook highlights the sometimes surprising, often hidden and overlooked Jewish resonances within a range of styles from modern and postmodern dance to folk dance and flamenco.

Contents:

The Micro-Gestures of Survival: Searching for the Lost Traces / Laure Guilbert

My Body is My Torah / Efrat Nehama

Trance-Forming the Nation: Trance-Dance Parties for Orthodox Singles in Israel / Joshua Schmidt

HaMapah/The Map: Navigating Intersections / Adam W. McKinney

I, You, We: Dancing Interconnections and Jewish Betweens / Hannah Schwadron, Victoria Marks

Then in What Sense Are You a Jewish Artist? Conflicts of the "Emancipated" Self / Marion Kant

The Godseeker: Akim Volynsky and Ballet as a Jewish Quest / Liora Bing-Heidecker

The Nearness of Judaism / Judith Chazin-Bennahum

Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora Flamenco / K. Meira Goldberg

Forbidden Movements and Degenerate Bodies: Personal Reflections on Black Social Dance and Jewish Resistance / Christi Jay Wells

Reclaiming My Jewish Yemenite Heritage / Ze'eva Cohen

Preface / Liz Lerman

It Was There All Along: Theorizing a Jewish Narrative of Dance and [Post-]Modernism / Douglas Rosenberg

Anna Halprin's Radical Bodies: Ethics, Empowerment, and the Environment- Ninotchka Bennahum in Conversaton with Anne Halprin / Ninotchka D. Bennahum

Jewish Roots and Principles of Dance Therapy / Miriam Roskin Berger, Marsha Perlmutter Kalina, Johanna Climenko, Joanna Gewertz Harris

Three Reflections on the Holocaust / Rebecca Pappas, Alexx Shilling, Yehuda Hyman, Suzanne Miller

Excavating Holocaust History: Site, Memory, and Community in Tamar Rogoff's Ivye Project / Rebecca Rossen

Choreographing Livability after Oslo: Israeli Women Choreographers and Collective Responsibility / Melissa Melpignano

The Cultural Politics of Practicing Israeli-ness in Gaga / Meghan Quinlan

Arkadi Zaides: An Israeli Choreographer? / Dana Shalev

Embodied Identification and Social Exchange: Israelis and American Jews Dancing in New York City / Dina Roginsky

Unfixing Folk Dance: Community, Continuity, and Reinvention / Rebecca Pappas, Avia Moore

Into the Light / Philip Szporer

Joy Vey: Choreographing a Radical Diasporic Israeliness / Hadar Ahuvia

Writing Jewishness in Dance: Strategies for Empowering a Broad Diaspora / Hannah Kosstrin

Believing Body, Dancing Body: Dance and Faith in the Religious Sector in Israel / Talia Perlshtein, Reuven Tabull, Rachel Sagee

(Not Just) Az der rebbe tantst: Toward an Inclusive History of Hasidic Dance / Jill Gellerman

Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity / Naomi M. Jackson, Joel Gereboff, Steven Lee Weintraub

Send Off / Jesse Zaritt

From Victimized to Victorious: Re-Forming Post-Holocaust Jewish Embodied Identity through Dance / Gdalit Neuman

Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Representations of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present / Nina S. Spiegel

From the Other Side: An Interview with Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Artist Dege Feder / Dege Feder.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 14, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197519547 (ebook) :

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.