Choreographies of African identities
Subtitle: négritude, dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal
By: Francesca Castaldi.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780252030277; 9780252072680
Subjects: National Ballet of Senegal; Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Senegal; Blacks -- Race identity -- Senegal
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Riverside.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : positionality and the choreography of theory; title: The National Ballet of Senegal at a theatre in California; title: African dance, Africanist discourse, and negritude; title: The National Ballet of Senegal at a theatre in Dakar; title: Sabars and a women's public sphere; title: Tales of betrayals; title: The circulation of dances on and off the stage; title: Urban ballets and the professionalization of dance; title: Exploiting terànga; title: Conclusion : negritude reconsidered.