Barbara Sellers-Young

Biographic Data

ID6185271
NAMEBarbara Sellers-Young
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMESellers-Young
SIGNATURESELLERS-YOUNG B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS28
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Spiritual Herstories

    Amanda Williamson, Barbara Sellers-YoungEDITORBOOKSpiritual Herstories2020

  • Kinetic, Kinesthetic, and Modern

    Joellen A Meglin, Karen Eliot et al.ARTICLEDance Chronicle2018

  • The Founding Editors’ Awards, Honoring George Dorris and Jack Anderson in 2018

    Joellen A Meglin, Karen Eliot et al.ARTICLEDance Chronicle2018

  • Eiko & Koma

    Barbara Sellers‐young, Barbara Sellers-YoungARTICLEDance Chronicle2018

  • Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity

    Open AccessBarbara Sellers‐young, Barbara Sellers-YoungBOOKBelly Dance, Pilgrimage and…2016Cited by: 5

    This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, imm

  • Dance and Ethnicity

    Barbara Sellers‐young, Anthony Shay et al.EDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Dance and…2016Cited by: 4

    Ethnic groups have been defined as people who share a common ethos based on ancestry, nation, language and other identity markers. This volume brings scholars from across the globe that have incorporated perspectives from critical and cultural studies in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented as an ethnicity. The essays in this volume engage the four themes of i…

  • From Salsa to Salzonto

    Christey Carwile, Anthony Shay et al.EDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Dance and…2014

    Since its emergence among Spanish-speaking immigrants in New York City in the 1960s, salsa dance (and music) has become a quintessential symbol of Latin identity in and outside of the United States. The worldwide adoption of the dance has opened up new possibilities for identity construction. Using field research from Accra, Ghana, this chapter explores the ways in which salsa dance has come to inform a pan-African identity, creating moments wher…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

    Anthony Shay, Barbara Sellers-YoungEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Dance and…2013

    Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and in a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, such as when African Americans were—and sometimes still are—told that their bodies are “not right” for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when nineteenth-century Christian missionaries banned the performance of…

  • Significant Other

    Barbara Sellers‐young, Barbara Sellers-YoungARTICLETheatre Journal2006

    Reviewed by: Significant Other: Staging the American in China Barbara Sellers-Young Significant Other: Staging the American in China. By Claire Conceison. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004; pp. xi + 297. $55.00 cloth. Significant Other by Claire Conceison examines the recent political history of China and the United States in relationship to representations of Americans on the Chinese stage. In her observations of Chinese spoken drama o…

  • Belly Dance

    Open AccessAnthony Shay, Barbara Sellers‐young et al.ARTICLEDance Research Journal2003Cited by: 19References: 3

    The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. (Said 1978,1) The past century has witnessed the phenomenon of belly dancing becoming a key icon of the Middle East in the West. This iconic representation often causes outrage, resentment, and even protest among Arabs who resent Westerners (mis)representing them by focusing on cabar…

  • Teaching Personality with Gracefulness

    Deborah S Klens, Barbara Sellers‐young et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1997

    This book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans. Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's life as a teacher in three Pacific Northwest communities, providing an explanation of her teaching processes and contexts of performances

  • Kanriye Fujima's Adaptation of the Iemoto System

    Barbara Sellers‐young, Barbara Sellers-YoungARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1992