Dance & Identity

Books:

1987        To Dance Is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication.  Revised 1979 edition.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press
(Identities of gender, age, social class, warrior skill, leadership)

1983        The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society.  Austin and London: University of Texas Press
(How the expression of emotion identifies ethnic groups)

1988a      Disruptive School Behavior: Class, Race, and Culture. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers
(How some youngsters use individual and group dance to assert their identity)

1988b      Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
(Conveying identity in dance through who does what, when, where, how, along and with or to whom)

1999        Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Moves for Changing Times.  Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press
(Learning in, about, and through dance; student and teacher identities in professional dance and education)

2007        Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, Md. AltaMira Press.
(Identities of life crisis stages, disease, colonialism, race relations, poverty, human and supernatural)

---            Nigeria's Ubakala Igbo Dance:  Life, Death, and the Women's War.  London:  Harwood Academic Publishers--in preparation (Development of The Anthropology of Dance Ritual.  Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University.  Ann Arbor:  University Microfilms No. 76-28,657, 1976)
(Dance as a vehicle through which persistent and contradictory values and identities can be expressed, taught, and reconciled)

Articles:

1979        "Dance and its Social Structure:  The Ubakala of Nigeria," Journal of Communication (The Social Meanings of Art) 29(4):184-191

1983        "From Folk/Sacred to Popular Culture:  Syncretism in Nigeria's Ubakala Dance-Plays," Critical Arts (Rhodes University, South Africa) 3(1):44-54

1985        "Foreign Policy and the Arts," The Newsletter of International Dance Alliance, Winter, p. 4

1986        "Interethnic Communication in Children's Own Dance, Play, and Protest," in Young Y. Kim, ed., Interethnic Communication (Vol. 10, International and Intercultural Communication Annual). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 176-198

1988a      "The Representation and Reality of Divinity in Dance," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56(2):501-526

1988b      "Theories and Realities of Emotion in Performance," Polish Art Studies 9:44-66 and Gestos 3(6):27-51

1988c      "Do We Teach Sex Roles Through Dance Education?" Dance Teacher Now 10(7):38-41

1989a      "African Dance Frame by Frame:  Revelation of Sex Roles Through Distinctive Feature Analysis and Comments on Field Research, Film, and Notation," Journal of Black Studies 19(4):422-441; abstracted in Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2):13, 1989

1989b      "The Anthropology of Dance," in Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey, eds., Dance: Current Selected Research, I. New York: AMS Press, pp. 219-237

1989c      "Dance, Politics, and National Identity," Ballett International (Cologne) 12(2):20-25

1990a      "Dance and Women's Protest in Nigeria and the United States," in Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg, eds., Women and Social Protest.  New York:  Oxford University Press, pp. 333-345

1990b      "Why Learn Indian Dance: What Western-style Dancers Stand To Gain from a Study of Bharata Natyam?" India Currents 4(8):17-18

1990c      "Ailey Camp Promotes Literacy for At-Risk Youth," Dance Teacher Now 12(4):38-40

1992        "Moving Messages:  Identity and Desire in Dance," in James Lull, ed., Popular Music and Communication, 2nd Edition. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 176-195

1994        "What Is Black Dance?" Dance Teacher Now 16(8):69-72, 74, 76

1995        "The Power of Dance:  Health and Healing," Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 1(4):323-327

1996        "In Defense of Exotic Dance," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 1(3):70, 72

1997a      "Nilimma Devi's Touch of India in America," Dance Teacher Now 19(2):97-100, 102

1997b      "Creativity in Ubakala, Dallas Youth, and Exotic Dance," in R. Keith Sawyer, ed. Creativity in Performance, R. Keith Sawyer, ed.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp. 141-167

1998a      "Learning Ballet the Russian Way," Dance Teacher Now 20(9):40-44, 46-47

1998b      "Exotic Dance in Seattle: The First Amendment and Anthropology," AnthroWatch 6(1):4-6

1999a      "Feminist Perspectives on Classical Indian Dance," in David Waterhouse, ed., Dance of India (South Asian Studies Papers). Toronto: University of Toronto Graduate Centre for South Asian Studies, pp. 169-202

1999b     "Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment," in Stuart Reifel, ed., Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT., Ablex, pp. 37-55

2002        “Playing Dance Anthropologist in Dance Education,” Journal of Dance Education 2(3):100-103

2003        “Aesthetics -- Whose Notions of Appropriateness & Competency, What Are They nd     How Do We Know?” World of Music, Special Issue: Cross-Cultural Aesthetics, eds., D.A. Avorgbedor and M.P. Baumann, 45(3):29-54

2004a      “Cuba: A Little Island & a Lot of Dance,” Dancer, July, pp. 44-49

2004b      "Cuban Dance on Street, Stage and Page" (with Ramiro Guerra), Dance Critics Association News, Fall, pp. 8 -13

2004c     "To Tap into the Meaning of Movement," Movement News (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies), 29(1):9-10

2004d      “Dance Classes,” in Gary S. Cross, ed., Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America, Vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 263-265

2004e      “Performing Arts Audiences,” in Gary S. Cross, ed., Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Vol 2.  Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 105-107

2004f       “Social Dancing,” in Gary S. Cross, ed., Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 284-287

2004g      “Dance,” in Cary Wintz and Paul Finkelman, eds., Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2 vols.). New York: Routledge, pp. 289-293

2005a     "Dance and Religion (Overview)," in Lindsay Jones, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan Co., pp. 2134-2143

2005b      “Body Language and Learning: Insights for K-12 Education,” in Lynnette Y. Overby and Billie Lepczyk, eds., Dance Education (Dance: Current Selected Research, Vol. 5). New York: AMS Press, pp. 203-220

2005c     “Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance: A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers” (CPL  
[Council of Planning Librarians] Bibliography 375), Journal of Planning Literature 20(2):116-134

2006       "Marian Chace Foundation Annual Lecture: October 2005. The Power of Dance Discourse: Explanation in Self-Defense," American Journal of Dance Therapy 28(1):3-20