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“An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Joann Kealiinohomoku

“An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Joann Kealiinohomoku. Presented by: Katie McClellan and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart. Anthropology NOT Archaeology. Author’s Intro. “It is good anthropology to think of ballet as a form of ethnic dance.”

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“An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Joann Kealiinohomoku

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  1. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance”Joann Kealiinohomoku Presented by: Katie McClellan and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart

  2. Anthropology NOT Archaeology

  3. Author’s Intro • “It is good anthropology to think of ballet as a form of ethnic dance.” • Goal of article: to bridge the communication gap between scholars of dance and anthropology

  4. Ethnic

  5. Definition of ethnic in relation to dance • For anthropologists: ____________________________________________________________ • For dance scholars: ____________________________________________________________

  6. Dance Scholars • DeMille, Haskell, Holt, the Kinneys, Kirstein, La Meri, Martin, Sachs, Sorell, Terry. • Basically, they generalize “_____ _____” and also make fun

  7. Myth • According to myth where did dance come from?

  8. Discussion • Have you ever experienced this tendency of “mobs” to spontaneously begin dancing?

  9. Paradigm • Hopi dances • Complete Freedom? • Orgy? • Exuberance? • Pelvic?

  10. Let’s be consistent • Folk: __________________________ • Primitive: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Ethnic: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  11. Ballet is Ethnic • Decidedly cultural • European • Promotes our ____________

  12. To dance scholars… • Stay in your box • Don’t be “comfortably complacent”

  13. Sources • Kealinohomoku, Joann. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance.” What is Dance. Eds. Copeland, Roger and Marshall Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. • Rhodes, Robert. Hopi Music and Dance. Tsaile, Arizona : Navajo Community College Press, 1977. • Talking Spirits: music from the Hopi, Zuni, Laguna & San Juan Pueblos. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Music of the World, 1992. • “The Godfather Pictures.” 2002. Funwaves.com. 16 March 2005. http://funwavs.com/movie/pictures/the-godfather/ • “Grease Pictures.” 2005. Starpulse.com. 16 March 2005. <http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Grease/Pictures/>

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