PCUL 1F92 Lecture 14: The Legacy of Mediated Dance.docx
6 Nov 2014
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The legacy of mediated dance - dr. mary fogarty. A case study of breaking videos in the 1990s. Dance is often seen as a leisure activity and not something that people do as a job. Midus connects break dancing to his political views: hands as direction, rigidness. Complicates how we straighten out to organize dance in popular culture. Live dance (sell tickets: branding products (getting sponsorship, clubs, competitions. People who break often times go to change the youth around them because it has changed their lives. During the 1990"s artifacts (videos) were exchanged and circulated through the world. They are historically significant for the frame work of earlier breakers, and the culture around it. Tran"s local exchanges of vhs tapes to build dancers international representation and reputation. More known dancer"s would go to different areas and countries and video tape other peoples dancing to learn more and broaden their perspective of dancing.
