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Author Bizas, Eleni.

Title Learning Senegalese Sabar : Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Dance and performance studies ; volume 6
Dance and performance studies ; v. 6.
Summary Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintai.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Transatlantic Travels of West African Dance -- Chapter 2 The New York Dance Floor -- Chapter 3 Navigating Transatlantic Flows -- Chapter 4 Re-choreographing Sabar -- Chapter 5 The Kinaesthetic of Sabar -- Chapter 6 Hearing Movements, Seeing Rhythms -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Senegal.
Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
Senegal.
Dance, Black -- Africa, West -- Influence.
Dance, Black.
West Africa.
Dance -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York.
Dance -- Study and teaching.
New York (State) -- New York.
Dance -- Study and teaching -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Senegal -- Dakar.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781306465229
ISBN 9781782382577 (electronic book)
1782382577 (electronic book)
1782382569
9781782382560
9781306465229
1306465222