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Dancing to Transform - How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity (Hardcover, New edition)
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Dancing to Transform - How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity (Hardcover, New edition)
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In response to a scarcity of writings on the intersections between
dance and Christianity, Dancing to Transform examines the religious
lives of American Christians who, despite the historically tenuous
place of dance within Christianity, are also professional dancers.
Emily Wright details how these dancing Christians transform what
they perceive as secular professional by transforming concert dance
into different kinds of religious practices in order to express
individual and communal religious identities. Through a multi-site,
qualitative study of four professional dance companies, Wright
explores how religious and artistic commitments, everyday lived
experience and varied performance contexts influence and shape the
approaches of Christian professional dancers to creating,
transforming and performing dance. Subsequently, this book provides
readers with a greater awareness and appreciation for the complex
interactions between American Christianity and dance. This study,
in turn, delivers audiences a richer, more nuanced picture of the
complex histories of these Christian, dancing communities and
offers more fruitful readings of their choreographic productions.
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