Which cultural dance in this unit is the most striking example of celebration and/or suppression? Describe why you feel this way.

Unit 3: Americas – Paper
Americas Unit Paper
Prompt:

“Indigenous people, enslaved people, and economically disadvantaged people often have elements of their culture outlawed or appropriated by national governments.

For you, which cultural dance in this unit is the most striking example of celebration and/or suppression? Describe why you feel this way”

Each Unit Paper should be approximately two (2) pages in length, type-written, double-spaced, 12 pt. font.

You may submit your paper early. Your paper may be up to three (3) pages in length.

Your Unit Papers will be a written collection of your expectations for a given dance form or culture, observations about your personal experience with the dance form in lab, and reflections about your experience and how it was impacted by your expectations.

 

Read

World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle by Patricia Leigh Beaman, Chapter 8 – Native American, the Caribbean, and South America: Resistance, spirituality, and spectacle.

Ballet Folklorico – article (attached)

Optional:
Americas PowerPoint (see attached files above)

World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle by Patricia Leigh Beaman, Chapter 8 – Native American, the Caribbean, and South America: Resistance, spirituality, and spectacle.

 

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