Transcript An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic

“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.”
 Goal of article: to bridge the
communication gap between scholars of
dance and anthropology
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Ethnic
Definition of ethnic in relation to
dance
 For anthropologists:
______________________________
______________________________
 For dance scholars:
______________________________
______________________________
Dance Scholars
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DeMille, Haskell, Holt, the Kinneys,
Kirstein, La Meri, Martin, Sachs, Sorell,
Terry.
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Basically, they generalize “_____ _____”
and also make fun
Myth
• According to myth where did dance come
from?
Discussion
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Have you ever
experienced
this tendency of
“mobs” to
spontaneously
begin dancing?
Paradigm
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Hopi dances
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Complete Freedom?
Orgy?
Exuberance?
Pelvic?
Let’s be consistent
 Folk: __________________________
 Primitive:
___________________________________
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 Ethnic:
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Ballet is Ethnic
Decidedly cultural
 European
 Promotes our ____________
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To dance scholars…
Stay in your box
 Don’t be “comfortably complacent”
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Sources
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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.
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Rhodes, Robert. Hopi Music and Dance. Tsaile, Arizona : Navajo
Community College Press, 1977.
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Talking Spirits: music from the Hopi, Zuni, Laguna & San Juan
Pueblos. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Music of the World, 1992.
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“The Godfather Pictures.” 2002. Funwaves.com. 16 March 2005.
http://funwavs.com/movie/pictures/the-godfather/
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“Grease Pictures.” 2005. Starpulse.com. 16 March 2005.
<http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Grease/Pictures/>