Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

The rise of K-pop cover dancers worldwide reveals how artists creatively adapt and transform this genre to suit local priorities. This ethnographic analysis examines two K-pop cover dancer influenc...

This study proposes that the inclusion of the Aragonese jota (a type of folk dance) in The Three-Cornered Hat contributed to interwar transnational modernism. The modern ballet, which opened at the...

A close examination of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 1962 Seoul performance, as well as Ailey’s influence on Korean dancers’ training and choreography, reveals that Ailey’s impact on Kor...

In this autoethnographic description of her training and teaching philosophy, Chandra Moss-Thorne offers connections between dance history and pedagogy. Explicitly, the article traces Moss-Thorne's...

Via Dolorosa is a procession dance created in 1983 by the Israeli choreographer Amir Kolben with Ramla Dance Theater. A reenactment by Galia Lever in 2019 introduced a new dimension by incorporatin...

This narrative inquiry article tells the story of Al-Sarab Dance School, which began as a series of summer dance workshops taught by Nadra Assaf in the 1980s in and around Byblos, Lebanon. The work...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

For the past twenty-two years, productions by the Hareket Atölyesi Topluluğu (Movement Atelier Company), an all-female ensemble based in Istanbul, have related to spaces such as the country, the ci...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

This study unravels the intricate dynamics of ballet competitions in South Korea, highlighting the interplay between domestic and international competitions. Expected to function as fair and credib...

The research project Tapping the Margins was undertaken by Ann Kilkelly and Mary Neth from 1999 through 2005 and focused on women in tap dance. Their scope was unprecedented: to analyze constructio...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

This paper examines dance reviews of transnational performances of Indian male dancers Uday Shankar and Ram Gopal from the 1930s to the 1950s. Throughout, this research seeks to contribute to metho...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)

The ancient Greek myth of Ariadne provides clues about the vitality of movement—its expression and action—and how it evokes a concept of selfhood that does not venerate arrival. This article analyz...

This article reads James Baldwin’s performative labor in the 1964 documentary film Take This Hammer as the staging of an engagement between Saidiya Hartman and Judith Butler’s contending approaches...

Using discourse analysis and autoethnographic research, I center twerking as a Black dance and a Black feminist practice. My research challenges omissions in communication studies, which has tended...

Drawing attention to the affordances and challenges of disability dance and choreography, most notably aesthetic ideals which are antithetical to disability knowing, this research seeks to instigat...

This article proposes mapping as a tool for dance historiography, and presents a case study of ballet in interwar Greece to show mapping’s distinct attributes. Mapping supports critical dance histo...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

In 1781, ballet master Maximilien Gardel presented La Feste de Mirsa, a sequel to his 1779 ballet en action Mirza. Given the latter’s success, Opéra audiences anticipated another evening of praisew...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)

Breaking prioritizes the value of respect, which is connected to the physical movements of the dance practice. However, despite promoting this value, Breaking faces a threat from within: unaddresse...

This research focuses on the process of heritagization and how it functions to both legitimize a dance practice and generate a new set of values for the practice. More specifically, I explore how t...

At the turn of the twentieth century, many Russian dancers cast aside careers in the highly regarded Imperial Ballet for unknown futures in the West. Emigrating for a variety of personal and artist...

Abstract How has a small swing dance community navigated shifts in etiquette surrounding consent and refusal in social dancing? This research focuses on Pittsburgh’s swing dance community and the changes that have occurred between the 1990s and 2022. To illustrate shifts in requesting consent for dances, accepting or declining dances, and expressing discomfort during dances, this study draws from interviews

Abstract This article offers an ethnography of Malaysian youth who perform cross-gender K-pop dance. In the context of Malaysia’s hegemonic masculinity, I explore the wider cultural space within K-pop dance for nonnormative gender expression, which is usually stigmatized. Drawing on Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity, Kareem Khubchandani’s approach to Asian drag, and Erving Goffman’s stigma

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)

abstract This study explores controversies surrounding the application of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) policies to Korean traditional dance. In grappling with the emergent debates about ICH, I focus on how Korean dancers conceive of their own practices. Informed by the perspectives of practitioners, I argue that conflicts surrounding the Korean ICH system stem from the contrasting legal frameworks

Abstract In her scholarship on pedagogy, Gloria Ladson-Billings describes COVID-19 as a call to re-set education using a more culturally relevant pedagogy. As ballet teachers and researchers working in higher education and pre-professional settings, we teach a form of dance often associated with the characteristics of white supremacy. Through this collaborative institutional ethnography, we generated

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)