Eleni Bizas publishes on dance, learning, migration and West Africa and is currently a Research Fellow at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

“Bizas delivers an astute multi-sited ethnography on teaching and learning… The author's descriptions of movement often jump from the page to land fully formed in the reader's imagination so that the reader, too, is moved.”  ·  Choice“ A short study of dance instruction and learning in three settings (two in New York as well as in Dakar, Senegal) raises important issues of globalization, the commoditization of dance and culture in general, and the complex embodied process of learning or 'enskilment.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database“The material discussed in this study is extremely rich and well analyzed. It is a fascinating piece of research.” ·  Stephanie Bunn, University of St. Andrews“…a wonderfully wrought study… crisp, well-contoured sentences that guide the reader effortlessly into the deep recesses of transnational West African dance… The ethnography… is enviably rich.  Readers get to know the dancers as they struggle with various issues: the relationship of sound to movement, the question of dance authenticity in Uptown, Downtown and Senegalese sites, the social, political and economic contours of Pan-Africanism and Afrocentrism.”  ·  Paul Stoller, West Chester University

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsMap of Senegal in AfricaIntroductionChapter 1. Trans-Atlantic Travels of West African DanceChapter 2. The New York Dance FloorChapter 3. Navigating Trans-Atlantic FlowsChapter 4.  Re-Choreographing SabarChapter 5. The Kinaesthetic of SabarChapter 6. Hearing Movements, Seeing RhythmsConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Eleni Bizas publishes on dance, learning, migration and West Africa and is currently a Research Fellow at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

“Bizas delivers an astute multi-sited ethnography on teaching and learning… The author's descriptions of movement often jump from the page to land fully formed in the reader's imagination so that the reader, too, is moved.”  ·  Choice“ A short study of dance instruction and learning in three settings (two in New York as well as in Dakar, Senegal) raises important issues of globalization, the commoditization of dance and culture in general, and the complex embodied process of learning or 'enskilment.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database“The material discussed in this study is extremely rich and well analyzed. It is a fascinating piece of research.” ·  Stephanie Bunn, University of St. Andrews“…a wonderfully wrought study… crisp, well-contoured sentences that guide the reader effortlessly into the deep recesses of transnational West African dance… The ethnography… is enviably rich.  Readers get to know the dancers as they struggle with various issues: the relationship of sound to movement, the question of dance authenticity in Uptown, Downtown and Senegalese sites, the social, political and economic contours of Pan-Africanism and Afrocentrism.”  ·  Paul Stoller, West Chester University

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsMap of Senegal in AfricaIntroductionChapter 1. Trans-Atlantic Travels of West African DanceChapter 2. The New York Dance FloorChapter 3. Navigating Trans-Atlantic FlowsChapter 4.  Re-Choreographing SabarChapter 5. The Kinaesthetic of SabarChapter 6. Hearing Movements, Seeing RhythmsConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Eleni Bizas publishes on dance, learning, migration and West Africa and is currently a Research Fellow at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

“Bizas delivers an astute multi-sited ethnography on teaching and learning… The author's descriptions of movement often jump from the page to land fully formed in the reader's imagination so that the reader, too, is moved.”  ·  Choice“ A short study of dance instruction and learning in three settings (two in New York as well as in Dakar, Senegal) raises important issues of globalization, the commoditization of dance and culture in general, and the complex embodied process of learning or 'enskilment.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database“The material discussed in this study is extremely rich and well analyzed. It is a fascinating piece of research.” ·  Stephanie Bunn, University of St. Andrews“…a wonderfully wrought study… crisp, well-contoured sentences that guide the reader effortlessly into the deep recesses of transnational West African dance… The ethnography… is enviably rich.  Readers get to know the dancers as they struggle with various issues: the relationship of sound to movement, the question of dance authenticity in Uptown, Downtown and Senegalese sites, the social, political and economic contours of Pan-Africanism and Afrocentrism.”  ·  Paul Stoller, West Chester University

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsMap of Senegal in AfricaIntroductionChapter 1. Trans-Atlantic Travels of West African DanceChapter 2. The New York Dance FloorChapter 3. Navigating Trans-Atlantic FlowsChapter 4.  Re-Choreographing SabarChapter 5. The Kinaesthetic of SabarChapter 6. Hearing Movements, Seeing RhythmsConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex