Terra incognita: mapping new territory in dance and "cultural studies"

Article Abstract:

Proposals are presented for incorporating cultural, ethnological and sociological fieldwork to dance training and academic study. Subjects recommended for incorporation include ethnographies of audiences and institutions, middle-class aesthetic norms and trends, and interdisciplinary approaches.

Research, Social science research, Ethnology, Sociological research

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Consciousness matters

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Suggestions are presented for developing the phenomenology of dance research. The include dance as a method of knowing, exploration of how consciousness links humans to the non-human world, and the validity of both shared and personal experiences.

Models, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Phenomenology

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Trend in dance scholarship: feminist theory across the millennial divide

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An analysis is presented on gender issues within the study of dance. Topics include the nature of beauty, the male gaze and the female as performer, and the sociopolitical malleability of theory.

Evaluation, Feminist criticism, Feminism and the arts

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