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Choreographing Rebellion : Dance Practice from South Africa to Japan.

Bloomsbury Collections: TxT Only 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
job, jackï.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Job, Jackï.
Women dancers--South Africa.
Women dancers.
Dancers--South Africa.
Dancers.
Butō--South Africa.
Butō.
Dance--Political aspects--South Africa.
Dance.
Dance--South Africa--Psychological aspects.
Genre:
Autobiographies
Physical Description:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
Summary:
An auto-ethnographic account of a choreographic praxis developed outside of Western practice, which engages with identity, decoloniality and transformation from a feminist perspective.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1 Emergence
Names and identity
Self-naming identity
Prepossessing the future
Dawn of Daai za Lady
The revelation of an animist spirit: A matriarchal chair, carcasses and masks
Spirit: Love, Blood &amp
Candyfloss
Spirital: The Coloured Dancer &amp
the Caf é Owner's Son
Dancing lines of communication
Daai za Lady's politicized emergence
Daai za Lady &amp
Man Mantis
Dancing Daai za Lady's prehistory in activism
The Kiss
2 Germination and growth
The importance of the first step
Zai, Tetsu and Me
Japan and South Africa's cultural isolation
Yas Kaz &amp
Daai za Lady
Japanese codes of daily life: Unbuilding Western perceptions of structure
Hectism
Hidden worlds
Moon over Zen Lion
Going Home
Enacting love as a strategy of resistance
Transmitter
The otherworldly attunement of Daai za Lady's ontology
3 Blossoming and fullness
Blossoming: Finding connections through difference
In music
In dance
We All Matter
For Anene
Developing new methodologies in performance
The-body-walks-itself
The-body-inverts-itself
Framing and reframing African identity
A brief note on resisting language
Fullness: Multiple translations of Daai za Lady and Butoh in South Africa
With students
With opera
With sex workers
Corporeal interpenetration
Of Dreams and Dragons
4 Dissipation
Becoming the praying mantis
And Then …
Following elastic lines
And Then… 2020, 2021
5 Looking back
Connecting Vedas and Yugas to Daai za Lady and Butoh
Treta
Dwapara
Kali
Satya
Dancing Daai za Lady into the praying mantis
6 Looking back to look forward
Connecting the Yugas.
What happens next?
Epilogue
Principles for choreographing with rebellion
Curiosity
Attitude
Actions
Humility
Courage
Notes
References
Index.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-350-45207-6
9781350452077
OCLC:
1574805742

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