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Dance Across World Cultures: Global Resources

Resources by Country

Africa: Kassam, Aneesa. When Will We Be People as Well? Social Identity and the Politics of Cultural Performance: The Case of the Waata Oromo of East and Northeast Africa, Social Identities. 6.2 (2000): 189-206
Australia: Rachel Fensham and Sally Gardner. Dance Classes, Youth Cultures and Public Health. Youth Studies Australia 24.4 (2005): 14-21
Belize: Phillips, Rebecca Wright. Choreographing Myth: Dance, Legend, and the Weeping Xtabai. Mythosphere. 1.3 (1999):319-33
Cyprus: Stavrou Karayanni, Stavros. Moving identity: Dance in the Negotiation of Sexuality and Ethnicity in Cyprus. Postcolonial Studies. 9.3 (2006): 251-66
England: Lesley Cooper and Helen Thomas. Growing Old Gracefully: Social Dance in the Third Age. Ageing and Society. 22.6 (2002): 689-708
Greece: Yaari, Nurit. Myth into Dance: Martha Graham's Interpretation of the Classical Tradition. International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 10.2 (2003): 221-42
India: Ananya Chatterjea. In Search of a Secular in Contemporary Indian Dance: A Continuing Journey. Dance Research Journal. 36.2 (2004): 102-15
India: Shanti Pillai. Rethinking Global Indian Dance through Local Eyes: The Contemporary Bharatanatyam Scene in Chennai. Dance Research Journal. 34.2 (2002): 14-29
Jamaica: Hope, Donna P. Passa Passa: Interrogating Cultural Hybridities in Jamaican Dancehall. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 21 (2006): 126-139
Jamaica: St John, Graham. Off Road Show: Techno, Protest and Feral Theatre 1. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 19.1 (2005): 5-20
Mexico: Vento, Arnoldo Carlos. Aztec Conchero Dance Tradition: Historic, Religious and Cultural Significance. Wicazo Sa Review. 10.1 (1994): 59-64
Papua, New Guinea: Eves, Richard. The play of powers made visible: magic and dance in New Ireland. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 69.3 (2004): 341-362
Peru: Poole, Deborah A. Accommodation and Resistance in Andean Ritual Dance. TDR. 34.2. (1990): 98-126
Sri Lanka: Reed, Susan A. Performing Respectability: The Berava, Middle-class Nationalism, and the Classicization of Kandyan Dance in Sri Lanka. Cultural Anthropology. 17.2 (2002): 246-79
USA: Ananya, Chatterjea. Subversive Dancing: The Interventions in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Batty Moves. Theatre Journal. 55.3 (2003): 451-465
USA: Cohen, Selma Jeanne. What Does the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy "Mean"? Dance Chronicle. 4.3 (1981): 279-296
USA: Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara. Social Dance: Contexts and Definitions. Dance Research Journal. 33.2 (2001): 121-23
USA: Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. Dance, Myth and Ritual in Time and Space. Dance Research Journal. 29.1 (1997): 65-72
USA: Levine, Deborah J. Reclaiming the Power of Sacred Dance. The Christian Century. 20 Mar.1991. 334-36
USA: Sklar, Deidre. "All the Dances Have a Meaning to That Apparition": Felt Knowledge and the Danzantes of Tortugas, New Mexico. Dance Research Journal. 31.2 (1999): 14-33
USA: Sklar, Deidre. Dance Ethnography: Where do we go from here? Dance Research Journal. 33.1 (2001): 90
USA: Sklar, Deidre. On Dance Ethnography. Dance Research Journal. 23.1 (1991): 6-10
USA: Sklar, Deidre. Reprise: On Dance Ethnography. Dance Research Journal. 32.1 (2000): 70-77
USA: VerEecke, Robert. Shall We Dance? America: The National Catholic Review. 3 Mar. 2002: 12-15

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