Dance and Identity in Aotearoa and the World Two is out this month. Do you have Dance and Identity in Aotearoa One?



From the Introduction to Dance and Identity in Aotearoa and the World Two

'This is the second volume of Dance and Identity in Aotearoa and the World. Throughout the essays the idea of culture and line is included sometimes in a coda. This applies to ideas of ethnic identity in Aotearoa. For example the essay on Hamilton and other writers looks at lines of identity set out and dissolved.

The volume includes Memory Body and Dance and this introduces a set of ideas about memorialisation and other matters that are extended and developed in the essay on ethnic identity.

Lines between art and expression are examined in the essay on the Sopranos. Here it is a matter of dancers not being allowed to talk that is the line while the culture is that of modern day New Jersey.

The idea of Ethnic IdentiKit, the identity assembled, so to speak, through social media on the internet also addresses culture and line but from a different point of view with the placement of friends and enemies, people on the 'inside' and others.

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