Jamake Highwater - Dance: Rituals of Experience (1978)

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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

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