Tag: Perceptions of Black and African Bodies in Dance

Paul SAGNE

Directeur Général et Financier, Paul Sagne, en poste depuis 2005, possède une connaissance approfondie de l’École des Sables et de son organisation. Il y a successivement été assistant administratif et technique, trésorier, chargé de logistique, coordinateur de projets, responsable du personnel, directeur administratif et présentement directeur général. Doctorant en Administration des Affaires, spécialisé dans les […]

Meisenhelder, Tom. 2003. “African Bodies: ‘Othering’ the African in Precolonial Europe.” Race, Gender & Class. 10 (3): 100-113.

Tom Meisenhelder discusses the historical process of “othering” African bodies in precolonial Europe, examining the racial and cultural constructions that shaped European perceptions of Africans.

Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

V. Y. Mudimbe critically examines the historical and philosophical constructions of Africa, exploring how knowledge and perceptions of Africa have been shaped by Western thought and colonial discourses.

Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène. 2013. Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal. New York: Berghahn Books.

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach explores the role of dance circles in urban Senegal, focusing on how movement and dance contribute to moral values and self-fashioning within the community.

Despres, Altaïr. 2021. Se faire contemporain : les danseurs africains à l’épreuve de la mondialisation culturelle. Publications de la Sorbonne.

Altaïr Despres examines how African dancers navigate and adapt to the challenges of cultural globalization, focusing on their efforts to establish themselves within contemporary global dance contexts.

Berlíner, Brett A. 2002. Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Brett A. Berlíner explores the representation and perception of the exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France, analyzing the cultural and social dynamics of desire and otherness during this period.

Dixon-Gottschild, Brenda. 2003. The Black Dancing Body: a Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Brenda Dixon-Gottschild traces the evolution of the Black dancing body in American culture, from stereotypical representations to the emergence of cool aesthetics in dance.