{"product_id":"grounding-practice-dasha-a-chapman-9780472058440","title":"Grounding Practice: Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrounding Practice: Dancing Haiti on \u003c\/i\u003eTè Glise tracks the responsive physical techniques Haitian dancers devised for navigating precarity, making place, and igniting repair in the decade following the 2010 earthquake. Via the concept \"grounding practice,\" which connotes the powerful community building and placemaking techniques these artists cultivated through the teaching and practice of Haitian folkloric dance, this interdisciplinary study illustrates how their embodied labor took on increasing relevance as vital reparative worldmaking amidst instability, or \u003ci\u003etè glise\u003c\/i\u003e-Haitian Creole for sliding land or slippery ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dancers in \u003ci\u003eGrounding Practice \u003c\/i\u003eregenerate understandings of Haitian dance's potential for fomenting decolonial consciousness, meaningfully sustaining African-derived culture, birthing new social relations, activating the queer potentials of tradition, and ultimately making place. Through ethnography and dance writing, Dasha A. Chapman's attention to embodied knowledge illuminates how movement practice operates as sites of theorization--wherein not just subjectivity, but also concepts of sovereignty, relationality, and decolonial futurity, are articulated through the body. Paying homage to important forebears yet moving us beyond static narratives, this study brings our understanding of Haitian dance---and Haiti--through expansive landscapes into the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dasha A. Chapman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472058444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472058440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Dasha A. Chapman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852725596415,"sku":"9780472058440","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grounding-practice-dasha-a-chapman-9780472058440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}