Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal

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Index Abilogu, Peter, 218n22 acculturation: 67–68, 78, 210n11. See also assimilation Acogny, Germaine, 220n12 Adotevi, Stanislas, 7 African Americans, 61, 120, 204 African body, 44–47. See also body African dance: African ballet, 9; Africanist discourse and, 1–2, 7, 34–35; colonization and, 37–38; essentialized body and, 44–45; in Senghor’s writings, 47, 53–54 African diaspora. See Pan-Africanism African Studies Association meeting (Montreal , 1969), 7 African urbanity, 60–61, 68–69 Agency for International Development, 7 Ale, Dial Moussa, 85–86, 87 alterity. See otherness Amadiume, Ifi, 89–90, 120–21, 214–15n43, 216n12 Amin, Samir, 189 animism, 31 anthropology, 4–6, 35–36, 54. See also ethnography Antoine, Philippe, 89 Arnoldi, Mary Jo, 207n18 assimilation, 50, 90. See also acculturation audience. See spectatorship authenticity: acculturation and, 67, 210n11; alterity and, 68; racism and, 12; representation of ritual and, 148–49; tradition and, 62–64, 124–26, 140–41, 155 Ba, Abdou, 163 Bakari, Abu, 193–94 bàkks, 130–34, 141, 153, 217–18nn12–13. See also improvisation balafon, 31, 193, 219n2 Balanchine, George, 68 Balanta, 31 Balibar, Etienne, 12 Ballet (African): informal vs. formal economy and, 150–51, 183–84, 195; interviews with dancers, 164–72, 185–91; multiethnic representation in, 154–57, 202–3; professionalization of dancers and, 150–54, 155–57; troupe organizational structures, 184–86, 194. See also dance; particular companies Ballet Africaine (National Ballet of Guinea), 21, 63 Ballet d’Afrique Noire. See Ballet Mansour Ballet Fambondy, 151, 162, 183–84 Ballet Kaddu gi, 97, 148–49, 151, 162–63, 183–84 Ballet Mansour: hotel performances by, 179–80, 183–85, 221n4; interviews with dancers, 164–72, 185–91; jàlí choreographers in, 162; Manding Epic production, 193–96; mentioned, 100; Peul dancers in, 219–20n7; role in formal economy, 151; role in urban/ international dance market, 183, 194–96 Balzar, John, 30 Bambara, 219n6 Barclay Theater (Irvine, California), 9–10, 60–62 Barry, Boubacar, 192 Bartmann, Sarah, 122 Bayo, Malang, 26, 218n22 Béjart, Maurice, 191, 220n12 Bernal, Martin, 67–68 betrayal, stories of: of Black Man by the toubaab, 114–15; of Black Woman by the Feminist , 108–10, 122–23; of Black Woman by White Woman/Black Man, 115–16; gender/ class/race relationships and, 13–14; of Girl by Woman, 110–11; “rape of Bintu” story, 104–6, 122; of the toubaab by Black Man, 109–10; of Woman by Mother, 111. See also sexuality Beyala, Calixthe, 59 Bezerra, Riselia Duarte, 141 Black Atlantic, 4 Black Man, 109–10, 115–16. See also betrayal, stories of; gender; race Black Woman, 116, 117. See also betrayal, stories of; gender; race body: African body, 44–47; anatomical body, 41, 44; corpo-real, 5; dancing body as spiritual mediator, 3; disease and, 157–58; of the ethnographer, 5; kinaesthetics and, 82, 86; movement as articulation of aural elements, 137–38; personal space in public seating, 96; sabar kinaesthetic and, 98 Bop, Codou, 73, 89, 121, 210–11n4 Bourama, Keme, 64 Boye, A. E. K., 89 bugarabu, 31, 146 Burkina Faso, 154 Butchart, Alexander, 36, 207n3 Cabo Verde Show, 103 call-and-response, 26 Callaway, Barbara, 121 Camara, Oscar Aboubacar, 193, 213n27 Camara, Sory, 83, 219n6, 220nn9–10 Cape Verde, 95 Cap Skirring, Senegal, 178–79 Cartesian dualism, 4 Casamance, 56, 79, 146, 212–13nn24–25 caste: griots caste status, 10–11, 74–75, 158–59, 161, 169–70, 206n14; Manding hórós, 158–59, 220n9; Wolof caste system, 74, 211–12n12. See also class ceebu jën, 99, 100, 129–31, 140 Césaire, Aimé, 48 Chernoff, John, 8 choreography: as articulation of aural elements , 137–38; Ballet choreographers, 144–49, 151–55; choreographic authority, 144, 155; choreographic present, 8, 64; as ethnography, 21–22, 64. See also dance —choreographic agency: cultivated vs. natural talent, 14, 157; freedom and, 186–88; sabar erotic subjectivity and, 58, 82; in social dances, 141, 146, 152–54, 218n27; use of choreographers ’ names and, 219n32 —choreographic authorship: bàkks and, 130–34, 141, 153, 217–18nn12–13; improvisation and, 138; in professional vs. social performance , 152–57; as relational process, 141 cin, 31, 147 cium, 168 Clark, Andrew, 219n6 class: colonial resistance and, 201–2; national identity and, 111–13, 116; Négritude and, 7, 55–56. See also caste; economy; poverty club dancing: discotheque competitions, 164–65, 168–70; discotheques as degenerate /westernized, 127; LT (Dakar nightclub), 91, 92–93, 148–49; sabar nightclub performances , 81–82, 91–101...