7-8.) Group Project Progress Reporting

By appointment, students meet individually or in small groups, with the teacher/facilitator to discuss progress and questions or concerns that arise to date.

• Start
• Primary Sources
• 1.) Personal Views of Beauty in Dance and Movement
• 2.) Differences and Preferences About Beauty in Dance and Movement
• 3.) Making a Lexicon - Observation of Intrinsic Elements
• 4.) Form and Meaning
• 5.) Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar
• 6.) Comparing Ballet as a Form of Ethnic (Classical) Dance with Bharata Natyam
• 7-8.) Group Project Progress Reporting
• 9.) Creating Ideals of Beauty through Dance and Movement


• Comment on this module

• VIDEO

• Harris
• Asphalt Jungle:
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• Vogue
• Paris is Burning:
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• Parrot Dance
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• 4 Temps
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• Bharata Natyam
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• TEXT

• Coles, Robert. Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians. Volume IV of Children of Crisis. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, and Company, 1977.
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• Grau, A. (July 2004). Contested identities: gaining credibility as a dancer.Paper presented at the ICTM Study Group of Ethnochoreology in Monghidoro, Italy.
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• Jonas, G. (1992). Dancing. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
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• Kealiinohomoku, J. (1970). "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as A Form of Ethnic Dance", Impulse magazine (1969-1970). Reprinted with permission of author.
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• Miner, H. (1956). "Body Ritual among the Nacirema." Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from The American Anthropologist, vol. 58. pp. 503-507.
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• Nabokov, P. (Ed). (1992). "Chapter Two: Hopis and the Love Generation in Native American Testimonies. NY: Viking Penguin Press.
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• Siegel, M. (1991). "Rethinking Movement Analysis". Unpublished manuscript used with author's permission (excerpt).
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• Sklar, D. (1991). "Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance". New York: Dance Critics Association News, (Summer). Reprinted with permission of author.
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• Sweet, J. D. (1985). Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians: Expressions of New Life. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
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• Tedlock, B. (1986). "Masking". Conjunction 9. pps. 166-176.
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• "Words for Movement"
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• Sklar, D. "Movement Observation Guidelines"
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• Vatsyan, Kapola. (1998). "Philosophy of Indian Dance" fr. Encyclopedia of Dance. Selma Jeanne Cohen (ed). Oxford University Press.
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• Jonas, Gerald. (1992). "On Bharata Natyam" fr. Dancing. New York: Harry N. Abrams.