Lindsey Drury
Biographic Data
| ID | 6190378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey Drury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Drury |
| SIGNATURE | DRURY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6267-898X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Travelling into the Dark
While concepts of remoteness have long conditioned the fabulation of alterity, remoteness is not a quality ascribable to distant places and strange peoples “out there”. No one is by nature “remote”. Building from this proposition, this article argues that a heritage of European aestheticization of the “far” north grew out of European ways of imagining the world and contributed to settler social imaginaries of remoteness. Through historical analys…
The transhistorical, transcultural life of sausages
New Mexican Matachines dances have long been discussed as descendent dances of medieval morescas . This article explores this ‘ancestral relation’, beginning on New Year’s Day in 1896 at the colonial outpost of Cubero, New Mexico. There, the German art historian Aby Warburg met a local shepherd who endeavoured to explain the pantomimic killing of a bull in the dance drama by saying the blood was ‘good for making sausages.’ Accordingly, this artic…
What's in a Name? Somatics and the Historical Revisionism of Thomas Hanna
This article questions how the historically revisionist history of “the West,” as initiated by Thomas Hanna, informs systems of inclusion, exclusion, and power within the field of “somatics.” Hanna, who coined the term somatics , sought in so doing to root the burgeoning field in a “Western” tradition of philosophy and science that he fundamentally misconstrued. Meanwhile, Hanna's work to formulate a historically and philosophically Western basis…
The Double Life of Pagan Dance
What can be made of the fact that American early modern dancers employed the term ‘pagan dance’ to describe their practices, ideologies, and aesthetics when they were surrounded by a public discourse that disparaged Indigenous dance through the very same label? When used to describe Indigenous ritual dances, the term ‘pagan dance’ performed a complete cultural recontextualisation upon whatever Indigenous dance that was its object — transforming e…
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The Double Life of Pagan Dance
What can be made of the fact that American early modern dancers employed the term ‘pagan dance’ to describe their practices, ideologies, and aesthetics when they were surrounded by a public discourse that disparaged Indigenous dance through the very same label? When used to describe Indigenous ritual dances, the term ‘pagan dance’ performed a complete cultural recontextualisation upon whatever Indigenous dance that was its object — transforming e…
What's in a Name? Somatics and the Historical Revisionism of Thomas Hanna
This article questions how the historically revisionist history of “the West,” as initiated by Thomas Hanna, informs systems of inclusion, exclusion, and power within the field of “somatics.” Hanna, who coined the term somatics , sought in so doing to root the burgeoning field in a “Western” tradition of philosophy and science that he fundamentally misconstrued. Meanwhile, Hanna's work to formulate a historically and philosophically Western basis…
The transhistorical, transcultural life of sausages
New Mexican Matachines dances have long been discussed as descendent dances of medieval morescas . This article explores this ‘ancestral relation’, beginning on New Year’s Day in 1896 at the colonial outpost of Cubero, New Mexico. There, the German art historian Aby Warburg met a local shepherd who endeavoured to explain the pantomimic killing of a bull in the dance drama by saying the blood was ‘good for making sausages.’ Accordingly, this artic…
Travelling into the Dark
While concepts of remoteness have long conditioned the fabulation of alterity, remoteness is not a quality ascribable to distant places and strange peoples “out there”. No one is by nature “remote”. Building from this proposition, this article argues that a heritage of European aestheticization of the “far” north grew out of European ways of imagining the world and contributed to settler social imaginaries of remoteness. Through historical analys…
Art (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Arctic (1 work) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (1 work) · Art history (1 work)