Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion
- Author: Foster, Susan Leigh
Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion
- Author: Foster, Susan Leigh
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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Dance's Resource-fullness Dance as Bringing People into Relation Dance as Energizing Dance as Adapting
- Chapter 2 - Commodifying and Giving Part A - Dance as Commodity Standardizing, Spectacularizing, and Promoting Bringing People into Relation as Constructing Interactivity Energizing as Targeting Vitality Adapting as Developing Transportability Part Z - D
- Chapter 3 - The Social Life of Dances The Global Reach of Hip Hop Learning to Dance in the Privately Owned Studio On the Powwow Circuit
- Chapter 4 - Why Dance? Why Sell? Why Give? Who is Dancing? Philosophies of Giving - Deborah Hay, William Forsythe, Savion Glover
- Index
