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Author Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène, 1969-

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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Dance and performance studies ; volume 5
Dance and performance studies ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
Contents Introduction : the shifting faces of dance -- Cosmopolitan performing arts in twenty-first century Senegal -- A city across waters -- Drums, sand and persons -- Images of a mobile youth -- The politics of neo-traditional performance -- Senegalese 'contemporary dance' and global arts circuits -- Contemporary trajectories -- Movement, imagination and self-fashioning.
Summary 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.
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Subject Dance -- Senegal.
Dance.
Senegal.
Dance companies -- Senegal.
Dance companies.
Performing arts -- Senegal.
Performing arts.
Dance -- Political aspects -- Senegal.
Dance -- Political aspects.
Senegal -- Social policy.
Social policy.
Senegal -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène, 1969- Dance circles 9781782381471 (DLC) 2013020236 (OCoLC)841893010
ISBN 9781461952527 (electronic book)
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