Dancing Culture Religion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780739174739)

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing, self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of "dancing," the structurality of all dances.


Author: Sam Gill
ISBN-10: 0739174738
ISBN-13: 9780739174739
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2012
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013