The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
Book
Date:
2007
Format:
Paperback
Description:
320 pages; b&w photos
Summary:
In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these concert performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Illustrating how Native dance enacts cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage.
