The historiography of European linked sword dancing

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Extensive research has been done on European linked sword dance, which has been performed for nearly six centuries in most of Europe. The research articles, mostly in English and German, are based on either the doctrine of survival or the national focus perspective. Scholars who follow the doctrine of survival see medieval and modern sword dance as originating in tribal fertility rituals Scholars with a nationalistic bias claim originality for their country's version of the sword dance. These approaches, which especially mould 19th century research, tend to focus on origins rather than on the development of the sword dance. Integrated study which accounts for innovations over time and place may better represent the history of sword dance.

Europe, History, Criticism and interpretation, Dancing, Dance, European history

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Notation systems as texts of performative knowledge

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Dance notation serves as a record of nonverbal communication, or performative knowledge, in artistic physical expression. It provides documentation of a society's culture, collective memory, and its conceptualizations regarding the translation of movement into writing. Notation offers dance historians a discourse on a society's negotiation between knowing, inventing and communication.

United States, Methods, Practice, Choreography, Nonverbal communication, Dance notation

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Performative power in Native America: powwow dancing

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The physical dexterity of the powwow dancers is demonstrated in their choreographic styles through which forests of gestures operate. The way in which sensorial 'moving bodies' perform and interact in myriad ways, at the core of powwow activity are examined.

Evaluation, America, Dance criticism, Powwows, Native American dance

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