Right To Dance

As an embodied, highly sensual, and sexually charged activity, dancing has the power to expose inconsistencies and abuses in human rights. Right to Dance: Dancing for Rights examines the intersection of dance and human rights through a collection of papers written by dance scholars, practitioners, and artists.

Introduction: Human Rights, Cultural Rights, and Dance in Canada

1

(18)

Naomi M. Jackson

Dance, the Church, and Repressive Morals in Catholic Quebec

19

(32)

Iro Valashahis Tembech

The Thin Edge of the Wedge: Dancing Around the Potlatch Ban, 1921-1951

51

(32)

Aaron Glass

The Show Did Not Go On: An Episode in Canada's Red Scare

83

(16)

Cheryl Smith

Negotiating Artistic Spaces: Beijing Opera and the Cultural Revolution in China

99

(24)

Margaret Chan

Remembering: The Weight of Memory

123

(12)

Peggy Balzer and Liz Marshall

Sacrifice in the Studio: A History of Working Conditions, Contracts, and Unions for Dance in Canada, 1900-1980

135

(38)

Amy Bowring

Putting It into Words: An Anecdotal History of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario Chapter's Professional Standards for Dance

173

(20)

P Megan Andrews

Championing the Individual, Believing in the Dance: Human Rights in the Works of Paula Ross, Jay Hirabayashi, and Judith Marcuse

193

(26)

Kaija Pepper

Dance in Action: Six Nova Scotia Stories

219

(28)

Dianne Milligan

The Exile of Poetic Imagination: Challenges to the Use of Expressive Arts with Children in Adversity

247

(22)

Christopher Lowry

Human Rights - Not Like a Document, Like a Dance

269

Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn

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