[PDF] Cultural Dance In Australia eBook

Author : Jeanette Mollenhauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9811959005

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This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.

Author : Amanda Harris
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1925022218

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Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer; and the indigenisation of symbolic meanings in heavy metal music. Circulating Cultures crosses disciplinary boundaries, with contributions from historians, musicologists, linguists and dance historians, to depict shifts of cultural materials through time, place and interventions from people. It looks at the way Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing arts have changed through intercultural influence and collaboration.

Author : Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000365751

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This, the fourth book in the series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape. It looks at Indigenous dance, choreography beyond theatre, youth and community dance, Australian dancers’ versatility and risk-taking. The comprehensive essays recount immigrant influences, the legacy of the Ballets Russes and Bodenwieser companies, dance on stage and screen, education and training and the story of Ausdance — the unique nation-wide voice and political advocacy organisation for dance.

Author : Jeanette Mollenhauer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780646817064

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Dancing at the Southern Crossroads presents a cohesive narrative of the early practice of Irish step dance in Australia and is the first book on the topic to be written by an Australian. It presents a topical view of the choreographic practices and social significance of step dance in the Irish immigrant community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and situates the practice of dance within the wider historical contexts in which Irish immigrants lived.This book includes biographies of the early practitioners which feature their dance careers and personal aspects of their lives. The development of competitions is a highlight, relating the moulding of the framework of rules and regulations to the socio-cultural context in which Irish Australians found themselves, as well as the concurrent developments in step dance taking place in Ireland. Each topic emphasises the role of the people who danced in past times and draws heavily on letters to newspapers which reveal those performers' intense passion for Irish step dance.The book makes a substantial contribution to the very sparse collection of works about immigrants and traditional dance styles that have been perpetuated in Australia following migration and re-settlement, which is a neglected area in Australian dance scholarship. Thus, the book underscores the highly variegated nature of the dance landscape in this nation Dancing at the Southern Crossroads traces the story of Irish step dance in Australia. It will be of interest to scholars of Irish migration, dance scholars and the current cohort of Australian Irish step dancers.

Author : Valerie Lawson
Publisher : Arden
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925588743

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A history of Ballet in Australia by a leading Arts writer. The author explores the influence of renowned touring troupes like Les Ballet Russes and international stars including Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn, and describes the emergence of characteristically Australian and also Indigenous dance forms in a vivid narrative. Richly illustrated.

Author : John Whiteoak
Publisher : Currency Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN :

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This publication is unique in its comprehensiveness and recognision of cultural diversity and a broad notion of community. It covers the history of concert music, opera, ballet, music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity, Aboriginal music, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance. It embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific. There's sound art, computer music, electroacoustics, belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos and much more. Over two hundred academics, practitioners and private researchers from all parts of Australia and beyond are among this book's contributors.

Author : Virginia Baxter
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9781920784096

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"Since the first edition of this guide in 2000, Australian dance has consolidated and expanded its international presence, performing idiosyncratic and innovative works to appreciative audiences around the world. This guide introduces a wide range of Australian contemporary dance works available for international touring. Diverse as it is in form and geographical distribution, the character of Australian dance reveals a continuing and deepening fascination with the body, with place, popular culture, the riches of multicultural society and the potential of new technologies. For a form traditionally wary of anything beyond the primacy of the live dancing body, Australian dance is proving to be one of the most consistently adventurous of art forms. This guide introduces a wide range of Australian contemporary dance works. The overview essay provides an introduction to the history and context of Australian contemporary dance and a brief introduction to Australian dance on film and video. In Repertoire celebrates the breadth and excellence of Australian dance, its capacity for innovation and cultural engagement." r.

Author : Joanne Crawford
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1863118098

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One of a four-book series, this book has been written to assist teachers and students in all schools to explore Australian Aboriginal culture.