Dancing to Transform

How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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In response to a scarcity of writings on the intersections between dance and Christianity, Dancing to Transform examines the religious lives of American Christians who, despite the historically tenuous place of dance within Christianity, are also professional dancers. Emily Wright details how these dancing Christians transform what they perceive as secular professional by transforming concert dance into different kinds of religious practices in order to express individual and communal religious identities. Through a multi-site, qualitative study of four professional dance companies, Wright explores how religious and artistic commitments, everyday lived experience and varied performance contexts influence and shape the approaches of Christian professional dancers to creating, transforming and performing dance. Subsequently, this book provides readers with a greater awareness and appreciation for the complex interactions between American Christianity and dance. This study, in turn, delivers audiences a richer, more nuanced picture of the complex histories of these Christian, dancing communities and offers more fruitful readings of their choreographic productions.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-18
Mått170 x 244 x 18 mm
Vikt498 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781789382839

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Emily Wright is assistant professor of dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in dance from Texas Woman's University and an MFA in dance from Arizona State University. She has contributed chapters to the edited volumes Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance (2011) and Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice (2020) and her work has been published in Dance, Movement & Spiritualities and the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship.

IntroductionMaking Christian Movements: Differentiation and Adaptation in Christianity from the Patristic Era to the Middle AgesAmerican Christianity from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth CenturyDancing as American and/or Christian in the Twentieth Century‘Let Us Praise His Name with Dancing’: Ballet Magnificat! and the Transformation of Concert into ChurchServant Artists: Ad Deum Dance Company and the Transformation of SufferingBefriending the Both/And: Dishman + Co. Choreography and the Transformation of the Choreographic ProcessDancing Divine Love: Karin Stevens Dance and the Transformation of the Spiritual JourneyConclusion

'Bubbling over with rich insights, Wright’s book marks an important contribution to dance studies and religious studies. Her revisionist framework articulates Christianity’s stance on dance with nuance and verve.... Wright’s text has sufficient theoretical sophistication to engage a scholarly audience, but it remains accessible enough for undergraduates and the general populace.Dancing to Transform expands our conception of dance and the sacred in ways that provoke and enrapture.'