Dance performances in post-genocide Rwanda: remaking identity, reconnecting present and past

“Avoiding the consequences of being famous”: An interview with the Queen of Rwandan Karaoke, Jane Uwimana

“…Drawing on theories of dramaturgy and environmental psychology, Wu et al (2015) explore the links of the marketing drivers and the consequences of hedonic experiences in the context of karaoke houses while assessing the effects of the physical environment, the employee service, and the core service on hedonic experience outcomes. The analysis of Plancke (2017) of the revitalization of Kigali's traditional dances towards a new national identity falls short in that it does not isolate the place of karaoke performances in this. It would have been worthwhile to interrogate the import of dance styles by karaoke performers whilst singing.…”

Contemporary Cambodian dance and sites of national culture: Chumvan Sodhachivys YouTube page

“…Research in anthropology and dance/performance studies has long investigated the interchange between dance and nationality, analysing how dance produces 'embodied communities' (Hughes-Freeland 2008) that are often also intersectional or highly gendered (Shapiro-Phim 2008). Research has also examined the tense, contradictory relationship between dance and national cultural heritage (Tuchman-Rosta 2018), and the transformations that result when dance is inserted into circuits of globalisation (Reed 2010, Plancke 2017. For Plancke (2016, 151), dance is a "strong symbol for making identities", particularly at the national level, as individuals and communities seek to differentiate themselves amid the flux and uncertainty of globalization.…”