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It's All in the Hips: Sexual and Artistic Minority in Canadian Concert Jazz Dance
- Shawn Newman
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- Congress on Research in Dance / Volume 2012 / Spring 2012
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 05 December 2013, pp. 118-123
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- Spring 2012
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Contemporary sexual norms in Canada continue to dictate how sexuality should be presented on the stage in many styles of theatrical dance. Jazz dance is not excluded from this practice; in fact, since the early days of social dancing, jazz dance has often been considered synonymous with gratuitously deviant sex and sexuality. In contemporary artistic circles, concert jazz dance often finds itself subject to an additional classification as low-art because of this perceived relationship between sex and the dancing. This artistically marginalized position of concert jazz implies a conservative heteronormativity in Canada that is contrary to our apparent inclusion of subjugated sexual minorities as “normal.” “It's All in the Hips” explores sexuality in contemporary Canadian concert jazz dance to illustrate the potential for representations of marginalized sexualities on stage, and the perceived threat to artistic hegemony. While there is growing research into sexuality on the American stage in ballet and modern dance through scholars such as Jane C. Desmond, Jennifer Fisher, Susan Leigh Foster, and others, and also into jazz's roots in social dancing by Susan Manning, Anthea Kraut, Julie Malnig, and a growing host of scholars, very little work has been done on the Canadian concert jazz scene, save for the work of Iro Tembeck, Mark Miller, Meilan Lam, and a handful of dancers. This paper examines the intersection between sexual and artistic minority in Canadian concert jazz dance and problems that arise for positioning the form to dance audiences as high art.
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- By Ramon Abola, Rishimani Adsumelli, Syed Azim, Tazeen Beg, Helene Benveniste, Louis Chun, Ramtin Cohanim, Dominick Coleman, Joseph Conrad, Tommy Corrado, Jason Daras, Michelle DiGuglielmo, Vedan Djesevic, Andrew Drollinger, Kathleen Dubrow, Brian Durkin, Ralph Epstein, Christopher J. Gallagher, Xiaojun Guo, Sofie Hussain, Ron Jasiewicz, Anna Kogan, Ursula Landman, Rany Makaryus, Daryn Moller, Tate Montgomery, Matthew Neal, Khoa Nguyen, Marco Palmieri, Shaji Poovathor, Eric Posner, Deborah Richman, Andrew Rozbruch, Misako Sakamaki, Joy Schabel, Bharathi Scott, Peggy Seidman, Shiena Sharma, Vishal Sharma, Ellen Steinberg, Neera Tewari, Jane Yi, Jonida Zeqo, Peter Chung, John Denny, Steven H. Ginsberg, Jeremy Grayson, Jonathan Kraidin, Stephen Lemke, Tejal Patel, Salvatore Zisa, Charles Cowles, Marc Rozner, Shawn Banks, Deborah Brauer, Lebron Cooper, V. Samepathi David, Steve Gayer, Steven Gil, Eric A. Harris, Murlikrishna Kannan, Michael C. Lewis, David A. Lindley, Carlos M. Mijares, Sana Nini, Shafeena Nurani, Sujatha Pentakota, Edgar Pierre, Amy Klash Pulido, Michael Rossi, Miguel Santos, Nancy Setzer-Saade, Adam Sewell, Omair H. Toor, Ashish Udeshi, Patricia Wawroski, Lauren C. Berkow, Dan Berkowitz, Ramola Bhambhani, Kerry K. Blaha, Veronica Busso, Adam J. Carinci, Paul J. Christo, R. Blaine Easley, Ralph J. Fuchs, Samuel M. Galvagno, Nishant Gandhi, Andrew Goins, Robert S. Greenberg, Sayeh Hamzehzadeh, Theresa L. Hartsell, Eugenie Heitmiller, Jeremy M. Huff, Brijen L. Joshi, Sapna Kudchadkar, Jennifer K. Lee, Ira Lehrer, Peter Lin, Justin Lockman, Christine L. Mai, Christina Miller, Nanhi Mitter, Gillian Newman, Daniel Nyhan, Lale Odekon, Rabi Panigrahi, Melissa Pant, Alexander Papangelou, Mark Rossberg, Adam Schiavi, Steven J. Schwartz, Deborah A. Schwengel, Brandon M. Togioka, Tina Tran, Emmett Whitaker, Bradford D. Winters, Christopher Wu, Elena J. Holak, Paul S. Pagel
- Edited by Christopher J. Gallagher, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Michael C. Lewis, University of Miami School of Medicine, Deborah A. Schwengel
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- Core Clinical Competencies in Anesthesiology
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- 06 July 2010
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- 12 April 2010, pp xi-xii
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12 - Journalism and the public during catastrophes
- from Part III - Reducing the burden: community response and community recovery
- Edited by Yuval Neria, Columbia University, New York, Raz Gross, Columbia University, New York, Randall D. Marshall, Columbia University, New York, Ezra S. Susser, Columbia University, New York
- Foreword by Beverley Raphael
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- 9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks
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- 27 October 2009
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- 14 September 2006, pp 178-196
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Summary
When we think about the events of September 11, 2001, we visualize images of the World Trade Center Twin Towers falling down, the fractured Pentagon, and a large crater with wreckage in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We envision firefighters, police, emergency rescue workers, smoke, rubble, and ashen-covered people. Sounds come back – confused and shocked voices explaining what is and is not known about these events, and the voice of a telephone operator describing a group of passengers overtaking a plane. For many of us our understanding, very memories, and images of these events are derived from a set of professional people first on the scene: journalists. These reporters, photographers, broadcasters, writers, and people behind the scenes accompanied emergency workers in order to bring the world the images and stories depicting 9/11 in real time.
Long before the events of 9/11 terrorism was a regular beat for journalists around the world (Bull & Newman, 2002). In recent US history, for example,American journalists covered the 1990 abortion clinic bombings, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City (Bull & Newman, 2002). While organizations such as the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (see www.dartcenter.org) have attended to the nature and effect of trauma-related reporting for several years, the 9/11 terrorist attacks significantly advanced the role of the media during traumatic times into the forefront of public and professional discourse. This chapter reviews the roles of American journalists during times of crisis, the emerging empirical and clinical literature on the relationship between media consumption and distress among the public, and the impact of covering trauma upon journalists themselves.