When she steps on an ant, it will not die; but if she stumbles over a rice pestle, it will break into three parts
An un-subtle subversive woman dancing body in Hoerijah Adam's dance/choreography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372594 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helly Minarti (Independent Scholar/Dance Curator, Jakarta, Indonesia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 260-277 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2020.1713517 |
| OpenAlex | W3005297600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay traces the life/works of Hoerijah Adam (1936–1971), known for her significance in co-shaping modern dance in Indonesia, providing a subversive discourse that decentres the conventional reading of Muslim women's bodies. Originating from Minangkabau, West Sumatra – the world's largest Muslim matrilineal society – exposed Adam to a hybrid upbringing of traditional home vis-a-vis localised progressive arts education combining Islamic teaching and Western-influenced artistic articulation. Her trajectory shows a woman's dancing body as paradoxical cultural processess, e.g., an interweaving of multiple discourses of Islam, matriliny, and modernism, informed by the innate resilience of Minangkabau culture in defending its core traits against the colonial powers
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology) · Colonialism · Dance · Islam · Literature · Modernism (music) · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |