Ted Shawn and Native American dance

Originally posted on Bibliolore:
Ted Shawn was the first choreographer to introduce carefully researched interpretations of Native American dance to audiences in North America, Europe, and Asia. Beginning in the 1910s, when prominent dance critics were utterly dismissive of Native American dance, Shawn formed a high opinion of it—a view that was confirmed when he…

Echo-Muse-Ecology

“Ethno” always implies otherness, but “echo” is about presence, about reverberant pasts in the present, presents in the past. And I remembered: sound is memory, here as everywhere. Steven Feld, “From Ethnomusicology to Echo-Muse-Ecology” (originally published 1994). Continue reading →