DAN 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnocentrism, Concert Dance, Eurocentrism
27 Oct 2016
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Article- an anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance: the author considers ballet to be an ethnic dance form. The author considers ballet to be an ethnic dance form because everything about the dance itself and even the dancers reflect cultural resources, ideals, and aesthetics. It is a product of the western world and developed by indo european. Aesthetic values of ballet include slender extended bodies, total revealing of legs, small heads, and tiny feet. It satisfies our own ethnocentric needs to believe in the uniqueness of our dance forms, and it is much more convenient to believe that primitive dances, like. Topsy, just growed, and that ethnological"" dances are part of an unchanging tradition. The idea that ballet is an old dance is inaccurate because it is still considered as a performance dance. Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space.
