Required Readings Module 1:
Kassing, Gayle. History of Dance. 2nd ed., Human Kinetics, 2017.
Introduction & Chapter 1
Ragazzi, Gaudenzio. “Interpreting the Prehistoric Visual Sources for Dance.” Music is Art: Intl Journal for Music Iconography, vol. 40. no. 1/2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 311-327, https://www.jstor.org/stable/musicinart.40.1-2.311
Garfinkel, Yosef. “The Earliest Dancing Scenes in the Near East.” Near Eastern Archeology, vol. 66. no. 3., 2003, pp. 84-95, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3210910
Lewis-Williams, J. D. “The San Shamanic Dance and Its Relation to Rock Art.” The Spirit's Dance in Africa: Evolution, Transformation, and Community in Sub-Sahara, edited by Esther A. Dagan, Galerie Amrad African Arts Publications, 1997, pp. 36-49.
Beaman, Patricia. World Dance Cultures : From Ritual to Spectacle. Routledge, 2018.
2.1, 2.2, 2.5
Lopez y Royo, Alessandra. “Dance in Ninth Century Java: A Methodology for the Analysis and Reconstruction of the Dance.” Near Eastern Archeology, vol. 66. no. 3., 2003, pp. 137-139, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/3210919
Beaman, Patricia. World Dance Cultures : From Ritual to Spectacle. Routledge, 2018.
2.3 & 2.4
Supplemental Readings:
Duke, Hunter. “Dances in Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation (1701).” The Public Domain Review, 2 May 2012, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dances-in-beauchamp-feuillet-notation/
Road to the Stamping Ground. Directed by Hans Hulscher and David Muir, Choreographed by Jiří Kylián. Performed by Nederlands Dans Theatre (ArtHaus Musik) and traditional dance groups of Australia presented by the Aboriginal Cultural Foundation. Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C413938
Suryanegara, I Putu Arya Deva. “Trance and Dance in Bali (1951). On the Musical Selections of Mead and Bateson’s Film.” Revue musicale OICRM, 9(1), 2022, pp. 93–113. https://doi.org/10.7202/1090516ar
Trance and Dance in Bali. (1951). Produced by Gregory Bateman and Margaret Mead, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02425201/
The Spiritual Nature of African Dance. Produced and directed by J. Rodney Chesson, The Pepper Bird Magazine's Africa Teach-In. YouTube, uploaded by Rodney323able, 27 Jun. 2011, https://youtu.be/eMSpj-vA6dQ?feature=shared