Dancing to transform : how concert dance becomes religious in American Christianity / Emily Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Emily, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2021]

Summary:

Uses original studies of four dance companies to examine the religious lives of American Christians who are also professional dancers. Explores how practices of dancing and Christianity, and experience and performance contexts influence and shape approaches to creating, transforming and performing dance. 10 b/w illus.

Contents:

Cover

Dancing to Transform: How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dancing | Christian

Methodology

Extending and expanding: Dance, religion, practice, performance

Overview of chapters

Conclusion

1 Making Christian Movements: Differentiation and Adaptation in Christianity from the Patristic Era to the Middle Ages

Greco-Roman influences

Jewish influences

The hymn of the dance

The orans posture

The Middle Ages: Dancing dominion and diversity

Pilgrimage and labyrinths

Elisabeth of Spalbeek

Choreomania

The danse macabre

Renaissance | Reformation | Enlightenment

European Renaissance

Protestant Reformation

The age of Enlightenment

2 American Christianity from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Contesting dance in America

The Shakers

American Methodism: Conversion and camp meetings

The Methodist ring shout

Institutionalization and segregation

Native American dances: Reinvention and resilience

The Indian Shaker Church

The Ghost Dance

The Holiness Movement: Walking by faith

3 Dancing as American and/or Christian in the Twentieth Century

The Protestant divide

Pentecostalism: Baptism in the Holy Spirit

American Evangelicalism: Engaged orthodoxy

The liturgical movement

The Jesus People: Countercultural Christianity and charismatic renewal

Counter-awakening: New paradigms and megachurches

Emerging identities: The rise of the Nones

Modern dance in the twentieth century

Subversion and expansion in mid-century concert dance

Postmodern dance

Liturgical dance in the twentieth century

William Guthrie: Liturgical dance pioneer

Margaret Taylor and the art of symbolic movement

Sacred Dance Guild.

Carla De Sola: Shaping theology and practice of liturgical dance

Contemporary liturgical dance

4 "Let Us Praise His Name with Dancing": Ballet Magnificat! and the Transformation of Concert into Church

Our testimony was confirmed among you

Dancing devotionalism

Reading dance in the Bible

Performative prayers of inspiration

Disciplining the dancing body

Dancing Christian bodies as instruments of God

Dancing evangelists

Choreographing church in

Dancing in the aisles

Conclusion: In the world, but not of it

5 Servant Artists: Ad Deum Dance Company and the Transformation of Suffering

The challenges of childhood suffering in Christianity

Transforming suffering into sacred pain

Dancing as a sacrifice of worship

Choreographic apologetics

Dancing healing prayers

Testaments to suffering in Ad Deum's

Conclusion: Choreographies of endurance

6 Befriending the Both/And: Dishman + Co. Choreography and the Transformation of the Choreographic Process

Converting to modern dance

Dance as a discipline of humility

Choreographies of devotion

Practicing love: Lifestyle evangelism and acts of service

Fold Rhapsody: Dwelling in a threshold space

Conclusion: Dancing the threshold

7 Dancing Divine Love: Karin Stevens Dance and the Transformation of the Spiritual Journey

Sensing into | through | beyond dance and Christianity

Practicing palimpsests of love

Three winters, three dances, three transformations

Dormant - Exploding Syndrome - Ashcloud

(re)MOVE: Back Towards Again the (re)TURN Facing

Epiphany, sea lions, and LUNG

LUNG

Conclusion: Spiraling Outward in a Post-Christian World

Interpersonal transformation

Notes

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Making Christian Movements: Differentiation and Adaptation in Christianity from the Patristic Era to the Middle Ages

Chapter 2 American Christianity from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Dancing as American and/or Christian in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 4 "Let Us Praise His Name with Dancing": Ballet Magnificat! and the Transformation of Concert into Church

Chapter 5 Servant Artists: Ad Deum Dance Company and the Transformation of Suffering

Chapter 6 Befriending the Both/And: Dishman + Co. Choreography andthe Transformation of the Choreographic Process

Chapter 7 Dancing Divine Love: Karin Stevens Dance and the 115 Transformation of the Spiritual Journey

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78938-328-5

1-78938-329-3

OCLC:

1251449141