Author:
Wright, Emily, author.
ImprintBristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2021.
Imprint2021
Descriptionviii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note:Introduction -- Making Christian movements : differentiation and adaptation in Christianity from the patristic era to the middle ages -- American Christianity from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century -- Dancing as American and/or Christian in the twentieth century -- "Let us praise his name with dancing" : Ballet Magnificat! and the transformation of concert into church -- Servant artists : Ad Deum Dance Company and the transformation of suffering -- Befriending the both/and : Dishman + Co. Choreography and the transformation of the choreographic process -- Dancing divine love : Karin Stevens Dance and the transformation of the spiritual journey -- Conclusion : spiraling outward in a post-Christian world.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
Note:"Since its inception, dance has maintained a tenuous position within Christianity. Yet, despite- or perhaps because of- its contested status, dance persists inside and outside organized religious communities. Using original, multi-site, qualitative studies of four dance companies, this book examines the movements dancing Christians make to transform what they perceive as secular professional dance into religious practices in order to actualize individual and communal religious identities. Dancing to transform is the first book-length analysis that situates developments in contemporary Christian dance in relation to the histories of American modern dance and American Christianity."--Page 4 of cover.
