Research Catalog

Traditional danced spaces : concepts of deixis and the staging of non-western dances.

Title: Traditional danced spaces : concepts of deixis and the staging of non-western dances.
Author: Williams, Drid, 1928-2018

Found In

Of, by, and for the people : conference proceedings. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1993. p. 255-263.

Subject

Note

A comparative analysis of traditional African dances showing how they are distorted by choreographers who do not understand spatial relationships. By ignoring meanings in the originals, they create ugly tourist art and distort ethnic identities.
Paper presented at a joint conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Congress on Research in Dance held in June 1993 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Bibliography (note)

Call Number

*MGRL 95-873

OCLC

NYPY99-B2502

Author

Williams, Drid, 1928-2018.

Title

Traditional danced spaces : concepts of deixis and the staging of non-western dances.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Found In:

Of, by, and for the people : conference proceedings. Society of Dance History Scholars, 1993. p. 255-263.

Research Call Number

*MGRL 95-873