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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 . Prepared by: Dr. Kay Picart. Thesis Statement .

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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 Prepared by: Dr. Kay Picart

  2. Thesis Statement • By ethnic dance, anthropologists mean to convey the idea that all forms of dance reflect the cultural traditions within which they developed. Dancers and dance scholars . . . use this term & the related terms ethnologic, primitive & folkdance, differently . . . in a way which reveals their limited knowledge of non-Western dance forms. (533)

  3. Aims • To discuss how an anthropologist might examine ballet and dance. • To uncover hidden value judgments concerning culture embedded in descriptions of dance.

  4. Worshippers-Celestial Church of Christ; Gbongan, Nigeria, 1991

  5. Review Question • What evidence does the author use to show that current Western commentaries on “primitive dance” are ethnocentric and erroneous?

  6. The Sioux “Ghost Dance”

  7. Discussion Questions: • Do you agree with the author that dance criticism/popular culture still enshrines ballet as the highest form of dance? • Do you agree that Western dance criticism still remains paternal & ethnocentric?

  8. Review Questions: • How does the author define “dance”? • Why is such a definition important to her aims?

  9. Review Question: • What are the distinctive features of this definition?

  10. Discussion Questions: • Do you agree that the author has successfully set up a “cross cultural” definition that differentiates dance from sports or ritual? • Why or why not?

  11. Martin: dance as a universal urge but without a universal form Sorell: differences due to “race,” “racial memory,” innate memory,” “blood” Review Question: How does the author respond to both these critics’ positions? Remarks on Other Theorists

  12. Discussion Question: • Is ballet a genuinely universal dance form?

  13. Discussion Question: • What do the aesthetics of ballet reveal about preconceptions concerning beauty in both sexes?

  14. Review Question: • What flora and fauna are privileged by ballet?

  15. Discussion Questions: • What are the main points of the article? • Do you see any weaknesses in the argument?

  16. Concluding Question • What would you say to someone who might accuse the author of being simply “politically correct” and nothing more?

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