Right to Dance
Dancing for Rights
Description:... As an embodied, highly sensual, and sexually charged activity, dancing has the power to expose inconsistencies and abuses in human rights. Right to Dance: Dancing for Rights examines the intersection of dance and human rights through a collection of papers written by dance scholars, practitioners, and artists. To date, no scholar has seriously examined the relation between dance and human rights. Yet there are intimate connections to be observed. Dance has been used as a tool for inciting people to violence, as a means of humiliation, and to unite communities in times of hardship. Dance is often employed as a nationalistic propaganda tool, to heal people who have experienced trauma, and as a powerful form of expression against gross violations of human rights. Book jacket.
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