Leading the Other
Gender and Colonialism in Partner Dancing's Long Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11223901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Kaminsky, David A Kaminsky (0000-0002-6515-8023, University of California, Merced, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 87-105 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0149767723000311 |
| OpenAlex | W4396754852 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
In the 1840s, the polka craze established lead/follow partner dancing as the normative social dance structure in the Atlantic world. In the process, it imposed a choreographed performance of bourgeois heteropatriarchy (originally developed with the waltz) on Europe's colonies and post-colonies. However, a central mechanism of the lead/follow system in social partner dance is the woman's body attitude, and as the nature of that attitude changes, so do the associated dances. In the Americas, women acculturated to African-rooted principles of polycentricity disrupted the equilibrium of the lead/follow dynamic, catalyzing the creation of new partner dance forms and techniques. On the one hand, this resulted in an intensification of the lead/follow system such that men could now control and shape the dissociated parts of their partners’ bodies. On the other hand, it also seeded the fissioning and eventual dissolution of the dance partnership itself
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |