Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts

Ramachandran, Sreekumari

Kisliuk, Michelle

Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, <em>The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance</em> documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of communities and the dance world writ large. Focusing on North America, Europe, and Israel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this <em>Handbook</em> highlights the sometimes surprising, often hidden and overlooked Jewish resonances within a range of styles from modern and postmodern dance to folk dance and flamenco. Privileging the historically marginalized voices of scholars, performers, and instructors the <em>Handbook</em> considers the powerful role of dance in addressing difference, such as between American and Israeli Jewish communities. In the process, contributors advocate values of social justice, like <em>Tikkun Olam</em> (repair of the world), debate, and humor, exploring the fascinating and potentially uncomfortable contradictions and ambiguities that characterize this robust area of research.

Soneji, Davesh,

Lewis, J Lowell

Lewis, J Lowell