Learning Senegalese Sabar: Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar

by Eleni Bizas

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782382569
• ISBN13: 9781782382560
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"