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Book Review: “A Dancer’s Guide to Africa” & Interview with Terez Mertes Rose

September 6, 2018 by Leigh Purtill Leave a Comment

Terez Mertes Rose writes fiction which often interlaced with her passions, including dance and travel. Find out how much of her latest novel, “A Dancer’s Guide to Africa,” comes from personal experience in this interview and book review.

Filed Under: Beyond the Bubble, Blog, Dance Library, Dancethropology, Interviews Tagged With: 1980s, Africa, african dance, ballet book, book review, cultural anthropology, dance books, dance novel, interview, terez mertes rose, world cultures

“Black or White” to Black and White: Dance History and the Music Video

April 17, 2012 by Heather Vaughan-Southard

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“The only thing new in dance is you.” A friend shared that quote from an Ohio University professor years ago and it has stuck with me.  Every year I find myself chuckling to myself as I listen to kids claim movements as “their” choreography when really many are sampling from the limited palette of movement […]

Filed Under: Beyond the Bubble, Blog, History of Dance, K-12 Tagged With: 1980s, American culture, ballet, ballet d'action, ballet history, Beat It, Beth Genne, Black-and-white, bob fosse, broadway, Charles Atlas, choreography, classical dance, commercial dance, concert dance, copyright in dance, court dance, dance, dance advantage, dance composition, dance ethnography, dance ethnology, dance history, dance in film, dance on camera, dance performance, dance scholars, dance theory, dance training, dance writing, Dancethropology, documenting dance, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Hollywood dance, intellectual property, Jerome Robbins, King Louis XIV, making dances, Maya Deren, michael jackson, music videos, pop culture, pop music, pop songs, social dance, social media, student choreography, theatrical dance, theory, thriller, training as dancer, twitter, vaudeville, videos

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