The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories

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During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages right through North The usa. In this first major study of up to date Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.

 

Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and up to date dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing whilst if truth be told encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on up to date dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to speak about up to date concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre.

 

Illustrating how Native dance enacts, slightly than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, in addition to spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage.

 

Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies on the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.

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