Dance Circles : : Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal / / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Dance and Performance Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres like the sabar, and the popular dances they grew up with. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Shifting Faces of Dance -- Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth- Century Senegal -- Chapter 2 A City across Waters -- Chapter 3 Drums, Sand and Persons -- Chapter 4 Images of a Mobile Youth -- Chapter 5 The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance -- Chapter 6 Senegalese ‘Contemporary Dance’ and Global Arts Circuits -- Chapter 7 Contemporary Trajectories -- Chapter 8 Movement, Imagination and Self-Fashioning -- Bibliography -- Index