2020
DOI: 10.1017/s0149767720000364
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Overcoming and Denial: Disability and Modern Dance in the United States

Abstract: Dancers and choreographers have always been navigating disability within an ableist representational form. This article questions the ableist histories of modern dance in the United States and seeks to redefine how disability is conceived of within the field of dance. The article explores five themes found within archival research, including overcoming narratives, symbiotic and inseparability of dance and disability, denial of disability, changing choreographic practices, and disability aesthetics. Examples of… Show more

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“…Lustig and Tan put forward that in dance teaching, it is important for students to understand and master the aesthetic characteristics and types of dance lyricism to improve their aesthetic ability [ 11 ]. Anderson put forward that accumulating rich life experience and artistic practice experience, going deep into the folk to carry out art gathering activities, being good at discovering and digging beauty from life, and absorbing rich nutrition from the “root” of dance art are important methods to capture dance images and enhance aesthetic ability, so as to better serve the shaping of dance images [ 12 ]. A. Wang and C. Wang proposed that many original ecological folk dances are formed within the same nation due to different branches, geographical distribution, economic status, and cultural development.…”
Section: Research Status Of Aesthetic Characteristics Of Dance At Hom...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lustig and Tan put forward that in dance teaching, it is important for students to understand and master the aesthetic characteristics and types of dance lyricism to improve their aesthetic ability [ 11 ]. Anderson put forward that accumulating rich life experience and artistic practice experience, going deep into the folk to carry out art gathering activities, being good at discovering and digging beauty from life, and absorbing rich nutrition from the “root” of dance art are important methods to capture dance images and enhance aesthetic ability, so as to better serve the shaping of dance images [ 12 ]. A. Wang and C. Wang proposed that many original ecological folk dances are formed within the same nation due to different branches, geographical distribution, economic status, and cultural development.…”
Section: Research Status Of Aesthetic Characteristics Of Dance At Hom...mentioning
confidence: 99%