Moving oceans Celebrating dance in the South Pacific Editors: Ralph Buck and Nicholas Rowe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific ; [6]Publisher: New Delhi Routledge 2014Copyright date: Ã2014Description: xxiv, 190 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138016828
  • 1138016829
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.30995 23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Godwits, Kuaka and the Returns of Ausdruckstanz in Aotearoa / Carol Brown -- 2.The Role of Gunge Takwaku dance in Kraku-bandi Female Initiation of the Yangit of Papua New Guinea / Naomi Faik-Simet -- 3.Learning and Performing my Pacific Island Identity / Teuila Hughes -- 4.Earthquakes and Aftershocks: Dance in Christchurch / Trudy Dobbie -- 5.Hip Hop Dance in New Zealand and Pacific Islands / Seidah Karati -- 6.Tracing the Steps of Modern and Contemporary Dance in Twentieth-century New Zealand / Marianne Schultz -- 7.A Teacher's Story: He purakau na te kaiako / Tia Reihana-Morunga -- 8.Dancing the Kolo under the Long White Cloud / Dagmar Simon -- 9.Treasuring the Meke in a Modern Fiji / Sachiko Miller -- 10.The Role of a Service Organization for Dance --- DANZ, Dance Aotearoa New Zealand / Tania Kopytko -- Artist Voices and Biographies / Douglas Wright.
Summary: "Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections." - Publisher description.
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"With a foreword by Pauline Hiroti, Salote Nita Latu and Nicole Pereira'--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: 1.Godwits, Kuaka and the Returns of Ausdruckstanz in Aotearoa / Carol Brown -- 2.The Role of Gunge Takwaku dance in Kraku-bandi Female Initiation of the Yangit of Papua New Guinea / Naomi Faik-Simet -- 3.Learning and Performing my Pacific Island Identity / Teuila Hughes -- 4.Earthquakes and Aftershocks: Dance in Christchurch / Trudy Dobbie -- 5.Hip Hop Dance in New Zealand and Pacific Islands / Seidah Karati -- 6.Tracing the Steps of Modern and Contemporary Dance in Twentieth-century New Zealand / Marianne Schultz -- 7.A Teacher's Story: He purakau na te kaiako / Tia Reihana-Morunga -- 8.Dancing the Kolo under the Long White Cloud / Dagmar Simon -- 9.Treasuring the Meke in a Modern Fiji / Sachiko Miller -- 10.The Role of a Service Organization for Dance --- DANZ, Dance Aotearoa New Zealand / Tania Kopytko -- Artist Voices and Biographies / Douglas Wright.

"Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections." - Publisher description.