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“An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Joann Kealiinohomoku Presented by: Katie McClellan and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart
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Anthropology NOT Archaeology
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Author’s Intro “It is good anthropology to think of ballet as a form of ethnic dance.” “It is good anthropology to think of ballet as a form of ethnic dance.” Goal of article: to bridge the communication gap between scholars of dance and anthropology Goal of article: to bridge the communication gap between scholars of dance and anthropology
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Ethnic
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Definition of ethnic in relation to dance For anthropologists: ______________________________ ______________________________ For dance scholars: ______________________________ ______________________________
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Dance Scholars DeMille, Haskell, Holt, the Kinneys, Kirstein, La Meri, Martin, Sachs, Sorell, Terry. Basically, they generalize “_____ _____” and also make fun
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Myth According to myth where did dance come from?
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Discussion Have you ever experienced this tendency of “mobs” to spontaneously begin dancing?
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Paradigm Hopi dances Complete Freedom? Orgy? Exuberance? Pelvic?
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Let’s be consistent Folk: __________________________ Primitive: ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Ethnic: ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________
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Ballet is Ethnic Decidedly cultural Decidedly cultural European European Promotes our ____________ Promotes our ____________
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To dance scholars… Stay in your box Stay in your box Don’t be “comfortably complacent” Don’t be “comfortably complacent”
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Sources Kealinohomoku, Joann. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance.” What is Dance. Eds. Copeland, Roger and Marshall Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Kealinohomoku, Joann. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance.” What is Dance. Eds. Copeland, Roger and Marshall Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Rhodes, Robert. Hopi Music and Dance. Tsaile, Arizona : Navajo Community College Press, 1977. Rhodes, Robert. Hopi Music and Dance. Tsaile, Arizona : Navajo Community College Press, 1977. Talking Spirits: music from the Hopi, Zuni, Laguna & San Juan Pueblos. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Music of the World, 1992. Talking Spirits: music from the Hopi, Zuni, Laguna & San Juan Pueblos. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Music of the World, 1992. “The Godfather Pictures.” 2002. Funwaves.com. 16 March 2005. http://funwavs.com/movie/pictures/the-godfather/ “The Godfather Pictures.” 2002. Funwaves.com. 16 March 2005. http://funwavs.com/movie/pictures/the-godfather/ http://funwavs.com/movie/pictures/the-godfather/ “Grease Pictures.” 2005. Starpulse.com. 16 March 2005. “Grease Pictures.” 2005. Starpulse.com. 16 March 2005.
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