By Helen Thomas (eds.)
This intriguing new and unique assortment locates dance in the spectrum of city existence in overdue modernity, via more than a few theoretical views. It highlights a range of dance types and kinds that may be witnessed in and round modern city areas: from dance halls to raves and the membership striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance indicates; from the ballet classification, to health aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.
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The bodies of the dancers literally brush up against and collide with walls, floors and pavements of the city. Its architecture and buildings are clearly seen to contain, even to trap and impound the performers. In Step in Time Girls (1988), choreographed by Yolande Snaith and filmed by Terry Braun, three women from different periods; 'contemporary', 'wartime' and 'Victorian', are seen inhabiting and coming and going from the same London flat. Frustration with the environment and situation are evident when the women repeatedly rock back and forth in chairs, run and jump up against walls and windowsills and stride back and forth along table and windowsill.
Concern over the African origins and components of black diaspora cultures has recently re-emerged as a vital political issue. Because dance is regularly identified as one of the most reliably and authentically African elements in the black vernacular, this seems an appropriate point to ask why the innovative dance practice in early hip-hop culture faded away so quickly, 21 22 Dance in the City/The City in Dance why the delicate initial balance which that wild, revolutionary style struck between music and dance shifted so emphatically away from the latter and why dance did not remain a more significant part of the mood, attitude and power of the movement as it conquered our planet's popular culture?
The involvement of organised crime is a regular feature of press reports of raves. See, for example, Redhead. 1993. pp. 14-21; Goodwin, 1990; Lavelle. 1994, etc. REFERENCES A. 95. C. 95. P. Brinson, 'Epilogue: Anthropology and the Study of Dance' in P. ), Society and the Dance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). 20 Dance in the City/The City in Dance R. Burt, The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities (London: Routledge, 1995). Collins Paperback English Dictionary (Glasgow: William Collins, 1990).