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Title:
Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.
Author:
Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène, 1969-
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Call Number:
GV1710 .S46 N49 2013
Abstract:
Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state funding withdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres like the sabar, and the popular dances they grew up with. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781782381471

9781782381488
Series:
Dance and performance studies ; volume 5

Dance and performance studies ; v. 5.
Physical Description:
xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : the shifting faces of dance -- Cosmopolitan performing arts in twenty-first century Senegal -- A city across waters -- Drums, sand and persons -- Images of a mobile youth -- The politics of neo-traditional performance -- Senegalese 'contemporary dance' and global arts circuits -- Contemporary trajectories -- Movement, imagination and self-fashioning.
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