Banes and Carroll on defining dance
Article Abstract:
Sally Banes and Noel Carroll claimed in their response to Monroe Beardsley's definition of dance as a sequence of movements to give pleasure characterized by rhythm or expressiveness that his definition gave too much importance to expressiveness, which was neither necessary nor sufficient for dance. Their reasons for claiming expressiveness to be necessary for dance are suspect. They give post-modern dance as an example of this claim, notably the task dances, and say such dances contain no more expressiveness than usually found in such tasks.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 1997
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Dance research in Canada
Article Abstract:
Cultural duality also reflects itself in the different dance experiences of French and English Canada. French Canadians tend to adhere to the strict, traditionally Catholic disapproval of dance and this mentality is difficult to change. Canadian contributions to the international dance conventions tend to be presented as part of the North American cluster rather than having their own separate life. The influence of Caribbean and Asian immigration has, since the 1960s, been evident in Canadian dance.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 1997
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