On the light fantastic toe: dance scholarship and academic fashion
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The 19th century witnessed the development of dance studies in United States. Dance critics and historians began to explore the socio-cultural origins of the genre, encouraging in depth scholarship in the performing arts. Modern critics cannot locate an objective element in dance and so, scholarship approaches dance with a degree of subjectivity. Feminist research has reacted in an ambivalent fashion; dance is appreciated for most artists are female while focus on the body instigates the fury of some feminists.
Publication Name: Dance Chronicle
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0147-2526
Year: 1995
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The future of dance scholarship in India
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Indian dance scholarship needs reorientation to successfully combat research problems. The long tradition of Indian dance has left behind vast literature written in many regional languages. However, most dancers are only taught the art of dance, not the languages that the texts are written in, and cannot interpret them. For successful scholarship in India, the art and the language must be taught to the same people.
Publication Name: Dance Chronicle
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0147-2526
Year: 1995
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The "congealed residues" of dance history: a response to Richard Ralph's "Dance Scholarship and Academic Fashion" - one path to a pre-determined enlightenment?
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Richard Ralph fears that dance scholars are obsessed with theory and pay too little attention to empirical research. He also accuses them of clumsily applying to dance the techniques of other disciplines. He errs in his belief that dance scholarship has not been accepted by universities and fails to recognize the development of the broader ideas of dance scholarship.
Publication Name: Dance Chronicle
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0147-2526
Year: 1997
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