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Record Nr.

UNISA996308813803316

Autore

Sörgel Sabine

Titolo

Dancing postcolonialism : the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica / / Sabine Sörgel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8394-0642-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230)

Collana

TanzScripte ; 6

Classificazione

AP 83987

Disciplina

792.8097292

Soggetti

Postcolonialism and the arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Contents    5  Acknowledgements    7  Intro: Tracking the Cross-Cultural Field - The Journey to Jamaican Dance    9  On Creolization - Theorizing Caribbean Identity    23  Dance and Postcolonial Nationalism - Embodying Emancipation    43  Jamaica's National Dance Theatre Company - A Postcolonial Reading of the Repertoire    95  Coda: After the Journey - The Remains of the Dance...    209  Bibliography    213  Backmatter    230

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.