Nordic Dance Spaces: Practicing and Imagining a Region. Edited by Karen Vedel and Petri Hoppu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409470014)

Dance has been connected to the practices and ideologies that have shaped notions of a Nordic region for more than a century and it is ingrained into the culture and society of the region. This book investigates different dance phenomena that have either engaged with or dismantled notions of Nordicness. Looking to the motion of dancers and dance forms between different locations, organizations and networks of individuals, its authors discuss social dancing, as well as historical processes associated with collaborations in folk dance and theatre dance. They consider how similarities and differences between the Nordic countries may be discerned, for instance in patterns of reception at the arrival of dance forms from outside the Nordic countries - and vice versa, how dance from the Nordic countries is received in other parts of the world, as seen for example in the Nordic Cool Festival at the Kennedy Centre in 2013. The book opens a rare window into Nordic culture seen through the prism of dance. While it grants the reader new insights into the critical role of dance in the formation and imagining of a region, it also raises questions about the interplay between dance practices and politics.

Author: Petri Hoppu
ISBN-10: 1409470016
ISBN-13: 9781409470014
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2014
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d