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Article: Choreographies of African Identities.(Choreographies of African Identities: Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal)(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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Choreographies of African Identities
Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal
by Francesca Castaldi
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 2006. 246 pp. $50 (cloth), $25 (paper)
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Francesca Castaldi's book on the National Ballet of Senegal is close to the PhD dissertation she completed in 2000, which drew from the author's fieldwork in Dakar in 1996-97. Whereas much has changed in the Dakarois professional scene since then, in many ways people's concerns remain the same. Castaldi was the first to publish an in-depth study of dance in Dakar, and hers is a very valuable ...