Lord of the Dance from Gerald Jonas

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Lord of the Dancefrom Gerald Jonas Dancing

• Created by Jessica Labbé
• Edited by
• Jessica Labbé and Dr. Kay Picart

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Review Questions

• What is the basic vehicle of dance?
• How does this vehicle influence peoples
  perceptions of dance?

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Discussion Question

• Discuss the impact the Christian world view
  between the sacred and the secular has had on
  dancing in the West.

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Review Question

• In Judaism, when is the right or wrong time to
  dance?

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Review Questions

• Contrast Platos and Aristotles critiques of
  dance.

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Review Question

• What is the interesting contradiction in Platos
  argument in The Republic? What influenced his
  decision?

Portrait of Plato
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Discussion Question

• Compare and contrast the Christian and Jewish
  attitudes towards dance to those of the Greeks
  and Romans.

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Discussion Question

• Why would the Christian vilification of the
  (sexual) body be especially problematic for
  female dancers?

Indo-Japanese Nymph of Sensuality Shakti
http//www.love-shakti.com/index.html
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Review Questions

• What was the main issue in Western churches
  struggle with dance? How did they attempt to
  resolve this issue?

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Review Question

• How do the dances/beliefs of African culture
  differ from those of the West?

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Review Question

• What is the egungun?

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Review Question

• What is unique about Hinduism compared to Judaism
  and Christianity?

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Review Question

• How do Hindus perceive the body?

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Review Question

• What is the Natya Shastra? What is unique about
  it?

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Discussion Question

• Do you think that the devadasis practiced a form
• of sacred prostitution? (59)

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Review Question

• What is the role of the bharata natyam dancer?

Bharata Natyam dancer Kay Poursine
http//kpoursine.web.wesleyan.edu/bharata.htm
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Review Question

• What is the all-male counterpart to bharata
  natyam? How is it different?

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Discussion Question

• How was the Kathakali saved? What are the
  implications of its rescue for similar arts?

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Concluding Question

• How do the dances described in this chapter
  compare to the numerous other dances we have
  studied?