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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790858503321

Autore

Neveu Kringelbach Hélène <1969->

Titolo

Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal / / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78533-038-1

1-4619-5252-2

1-78238-148-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Dance and performance studies ; ; 5

Disciplina

793.319663

Soggetti

Dance - Senegal

Dance companies - Senegal

Performing arts - Senegal

Sengal Social policy

Senegal Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Shifting Faces of Dance; Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth-Century Senegal; Chapter 2 A City across Waters ; Chapter 3 Drums, Sand and Persons; Chapter 4 Images of a Mobile Youth; Chapter 5 The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance; Chapter 6 Senegalese 'Contemporary Dance' and Global Arts Circuits; Chapter 7 Contemporary Trajectories; Chapter 8 Movement, Imagination and Self-Fashioning; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional



genres