Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada.
Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations. Examples include Fijian dance in Vancouver; Japanese dance in Lethbridge; Danish, Chinese, Kathak, and Flamenco dance in Toronto; African and European contemporary dance styles in Montréal; and Ukrainian dance in Cape Breton. Interviews with Indigenous and Middle Eastern dance artists along with an artist statement by a Bharata Natyam and contemporary dance choreographer provide valuable artist perspectives. Contributors offer strategies to decolonize dance education and also challenge longstanding critiques of multiculturalism.
Moving Together demonstrates that dance is at the cutting edge of rethinking the contours of race and ethnicity in Canada and is necessary reading for scholars, students, dance artists and audiences, and everyone interested in thinking about the future of racial and ethnic pluralism in Canada. Moving Together: Pluralism and Dance in Canada uses dance to rethink the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Using dance to rethink race and ethnicity in Canada Contributors
• P. Megan Andrews, Scotiabank Dance Centre and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
• Bridget E. Cauthery, York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
• Carolyne Clare, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
• Dena Davida, Tangente, Montréal, QC
• Eloisa Domenici, Federal University of Southern Bahia, Ferradas, Itabuna, Brazil
• Lisa Doolittle, University of Lethbridge, AB
• Catalina Fellay, York University, Toronto, ON
• Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB
• Anne Flynn, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
• Suzanne Jaeger, University of Toronto, ON
• Steven Jobbitt, Lakehead University and Chaban Ukrainian Dance Group, Thunder Bay, ON.
• Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto, ON
• Evadne Kelly, University of Guelph, ON
• Hari Krishnan, inDANCE, Toronto, ON; and Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
• Allana C. Lindgren, University of Victoria, BC
• Samantha Mehra, Independent Scholar, Toronto, ON
• Marcia Ostashewski, Centre for Sound Communities, Cape Breton University, NS
• Yasmina Ramzy, Toronto, ON
• Danielle Robinson, York University, Toronto, ON
• Santee Smith, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Toronto, ON; and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
• Batia Boe Stolar, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
• Pluralism, ethnicity, racism, inclusion, and diversity are current topics in Canada
• The loss and recovery of Indigenous culture (including dance), especially following the TRC's recommendations for reconciliation.
• Dance practices in non-professional settings
• Negotiating diasporic identity and maintaining cultural identity in Canada
• chapters touch on cultural appropriation, challenge traditional critiques of multiculturalism
• these issues have not been previously discussed in detail in a scholarly publication in relation to dance.
Table of Contents
Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Allana C. Lindgren and Batia Boe Stolar
Section One: Setting the Stage
1. Dancing Pluralism in Canada: A Brief Historical Overview / Allana C. Lindgren
Section Two: The Discourses of Pluralism
2. Embodying the Canadian Mosaic: The Great West Canadian Folk Dance, Folk Song, and Handicraft Festival, 1930 / Anne Flynn
3. Olé, eh?: Canadian Multicultural Discourses and Atlantic Canadian Flamenco / Batia Boe Stolar
4. Illuminating a Disparate Diaspora: Fijian Dance in Canada / Evadne Kelly
5. Ukrainian Theatrical Dance on the Island: Speaking
