Right to Dance
Subtitle
Dancing for Rights
Edited by Naomi Jackson
This anthology explores the connections between dance and human rights. Such connections appear most frequently in the context of dance being used as a tool for inciting people to violence, as a means of humiliation and as a means of uniting communities in times of hardship. Dance is often employed as a nationalistic propaganda tool, as a means of healing individuals and groups after traumatic events and as a powerful form of theatrical expression and education by artists/choreographers who have undergone or witnessed gross violations of human rights.
Bio
Naomi Jackson is an associate professor in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre in ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Praise for this book
This collection of 11 scholarly analyses of the interplay between danceand human rights will appeal to human-rights advocates as well aspractitioners, cultural historians, teachers, managers, and fans of allkinds of dance, whether in its "vernacular, theatrical, sacred ortherapeutic form.
M. Wayne Cunningham
