Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada

by Anthony Shay (Author)

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  2006

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  Looks at how various cultures use dance as a visual representation of their identity, and how traditional dances change over time. This work discusses several parallel layers of dance: dances performed at intra-cultural social occasions, dances used for representation or presentation, and folk dance performances.