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Santos, Eluza Maria.

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The dancing voice of culture: An ethnography of contemporary dance in Vitoria, Brazil.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The dancing voice of culture: An ethnography of contemporary dance in Vitoria, Brazil./
Author:	Santos, Eluza Maria.
Description:	234 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 0011.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-01A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=9954252
ISBN:	0599593024

The dancing voice of culture: An ethnography of contemporary dance in Vitoria, Brazil.
Santos, Eluza Maria.

The dancing voice of culture: An ethnography of contemporary dance in Vitoria, Brazil. - 234 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 0011.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Woman's University, 1999.

The human body, viewed as a repository of what a person experiences in life, discloses what has been rooted in it through movements, gestures, facial expressions, and words. Consequently, dance is conceptualized and understood as an embodiment of culture, manifesting the life experiences of its artists. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the cultural elements manifested, or <italic>voiced</italic>, in the dance-making of the theatrical contemporary dance companies of Vitória, Brazil, and to understand how these elements are expressive of Brazilian culture.

ISBN: 0599593024Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

The dancing voice of culture: An ethnography of contemporary dance in Vitoria, Brazil.
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520 $a The human body, viewed as a repository of what a person experiences in life, discloses what has been rooted in it through movements, gestures, facial expressions, and words. Consequently, dance is conceptualized and understood as an embodiment of culture, manifesting the life experiences of its artists. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the cultural elements manifested, or <italic>voiced</italic>, in the dance-making of the theatrical contemporary dance companies of Vitória, Brazil, and to understand how these elements are expressive of Brazilian culture.
520 $a Ethnography was a suitable mode of inquiry for this study of cultural embodiment in dance because it seeks to understand the meanings of a people's actions within their cultural context. Further shaping the investigation and providing an additional interpretive element was the phenomenological perspective of an insider—a researcher who was born and raised in Vitória.
520 $a Since ethnographic research is interactive, this study had a specific time devoted to fieldwork. The method of participant observation was used during fieldwork. Teaching warm-ups, videotaping rehearsals, observing dance events, engaging in conversation, conducting interviews, and collecting documents were the main activities comprising participant observation. Therefore, although a phenomenological perspective was used, the theory that resulted from this study emerged from the data.
520 $a In relation to contemporary dance in Vitória, this dissertation demonstrates how the intense environment, which is part of Brazilian life in general, is an inherent aspect of dance-making in that locale. The theory proposed is that the living human body of the Brazilian, embedded in its intense culture and society, is <italic>charged</italic>. This <bold>charged social body</bold> is realized in the <bold>charged dancing body</bold>, meaning the body in choreography and performance.
520 $a The cultural origins of the charged social body of the Brazilian are the difficulties, anxieties, oppression, marginalization, and limitations as well as the cunning, hopeful, passionate, and celebratory approach to life so pervasive among the people. Conversely, the charged dancing body in choreography and performance is a metaphor for life in Brazil and a microcosm of the society as revealed through the charged social body in the contemporary dance artists of Vitória, Brazil.
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