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What to Read and Watch During Quarantine: Recommendations from Master Teacher Katiti King
September 8, 2020
Having a lighter dance schedule these days means more time to dive into your dance history— including the broader social and political issues that have influenced dancemakers past and present. Katiti King, a faculty member at Barnard College and Gibney in New York City, shares her list of who and what to read and watch right now.
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Katiti King
George Goss, Courtesy King
Authors:
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- Sondra Fraleigh: Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
- K.W. Asante
- Ananya Chatterjea: Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha
- Mark Franko: Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics
- Gus Giordano: Anthology of American Jazz Dance
- Doris Humphrey: The Art of Making Dances
- Ann Dils: Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader
- Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: The Phenomenology of Dance
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception
- Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Bettina L. Love: We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Articles about movement embodiment:
- Dancing the Diaspora: Discovering the Influence of Traditional and Tribal African Dance in the History of African-American Social and Concert Dance in the Caribbean and the United States” by Kerri-Noelle Humphrey
- “Hula Space and its Transmutations,” Joann W. Kealiinohomoku
- The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke, and Thomas Schack
- “Neurocognitive Control in Dance: A Review” by Bettina Bläsing, Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Emily S. Cross, Corinne Jola, Juliane Honisch, and Catherine J. Stevens
Movies:
Many dance scenes are available on YouTube.
- African Dance: Sand, Drum, and Shostakovich (2002)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- Sweet Charity (1969)
- Cabaret (1972)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Carlos Saura ‘s Flamenco Trilogy: Blood Wedding (1981), Carmen (1983) and El amor brujo (1986)
- Carmen Jones (1954)