Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions
Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author—a dancer and a student of bullfighting—describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.

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Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions
Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author—a dancer and a student of bullfighting—describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.

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Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions

Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions

by Adair Landborn
Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions

Flamenco and Bullfighting: Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions

by Adair Landborn

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Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author—a dancer and a student of bullfighting—describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786496167
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 09/16/2015
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Proficient in two genres, flamenco and contemporary modern dance, Adair Landborn is a clinical assistant professor of ethnochoreology and curator of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections at Arizona State University. An active performing artist, choreographer, movement analyst and scholar, she offers flamenco dance workshops nationally and internationally.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Kinesthetic Culture
One: Flamenco and Bullfighting: An Ongoing Discussion
Two: Somatic Ethnography
Three: Overlapping Worlds
Four: Ritual and Performance Events
Five: An Aesthetic Topography: Gitanismo, Romanticism and Duende
Six: Movement Repatterning and Culture
Seven: Gaining the Emic Edge
Eight: Movement Analysis
Nine: Movement Parallels: From Structures to Motifs
Ten: Kinesthetic Culture
Appendix 1: Laban Movement Analysis Overview
Appendix 2: Notes on Language Use
Glossary of Spanish Terms
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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