Hellene Neveu Summary

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The article that I read is about a different type of dancing and, experiences of choreograph Hellene Neveu. Hellene is an anthropologist who spends most her time in Senegal studying dancing circles. She said “Dance Circles, took me on one of the most intellectually stimulating journeys that I have ever experienced”. She is a versatile dancer who examines dancers as people with great beauty. She also admires dancer because of their dancing, but how it helps shape individual socially and fashionably. In the article, Helene Neveu observes dancers in four different categories. The groups of dancers were sober, Urban Popular Dance, Neo-traditional Performance and Contemporary Choreograph. These groups of dancers were selected to demonstrate how

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