Something In The Way She Moves: Dancing Women From Salome To Madonna
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306813483 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A charming collection of storiesRecommended for dance fans and social history buffs." -- Curled Up with a Good Book 4/6/05"A paean to all the women who have danced for innumerable ages for innumerable reasonsHighly intriguing." -- Infodad"Brilliantly researched and utterly absorbing." -- Venue (UK)"Engrossinga book for anyone intrigued by thesublime, sexy, and downright surreal ways we find to strut our stuff." -- SirReadaLot 4/1/04"Fascinating feminist history of dance under the sway of fashion, class, race, and gender roles." -- Bust Fall 2004"This remarkable book is a fascinating read." -- Choice January, 2005
Historical Perspective on Women in Dance Wendy Buonaventura's book is a book about the way women have gained freedom from the constraint's of society through dance. How the "battle of the sexes" have played out on the dance floor, and how society views women during different historical periods. This book is a "must read" for any serious student of dance, whether male or female. Some people may find sections of the book offensive, but, hey, the way women were treated in society and are still treated is offensive, Wendy just points out the obvious!It's an intelligent. "So So" according to Jennifer Mora. I was well into this book and thinking "This author does NOT like middle eastern dance" You can imagine my suprise when I got to the last chapter and realized middle eastern dance is her passion. The last chapter was the only one that kept me interested. The rest of the book had some small interesting tid-bits, but just not enough. I do see she as a book just on middle eastern dance and I will give that a try. This one was a little hard to read.. Lazy writing, lazier insights As someone deeply interested in feminism and dance, I was excited to read what Buonaventura has to say in this book. However, it wasn't 20 pages in that I started to realize SHE doesn't quite know what to say. Oh yes, she has a lot of opinions, many of them broad generalizations of entire dance forms: modern belly dance has been bastardized by the West, and only insecure losers would pay money to learn it; ballet is an assault on the female body and completely unnatural. But her opinions don't ever add up to a coherent thesi
Her performance work was recently the subject of the television documentary Making Mimi. She has written and presented programs for BBC Radio 4 and has performed and lectured extensively throughout Europe and the USA.. An established dancer and choreographer, Wendy Buonaventura is author of the acclaimed Serpent of the Nile
Best-selling author Wendy Buonaventura brings us from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where immigrants created the delicious tango, to Paris and the bawdy, leggy cancan dancers of the Moulin Rouge, to New York, where struggling African-Americans cakewalked, Charlestoned, and shimmied into the public eye, creating "jazz dance" (originally--and tellingly--called "jass" dance). With heroines like Josephine Baker, Colette, Isadora Duncan, and the cancaneuses of the Moulin Rouge, this is far from a conventional history.Rich with both fascinati