Episode 17: Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
Ask a Medievalist
English - October 11, 2020 03:08 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Synopsis Dance dramas are theatrical presentations that use dance (and sometimes words, but mostly dance) to tell a story. Em and Jesse look at dance dramas from around the world, from Mesoamerica before and after the Spanish invasion to Japan. With a number of digressions involving Prince, Irish step dancing, Alvin Ailey, and the movie …