Occupation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: (214) 695-0427
432 Georgetown Dr.
Movement for Healing
432 Georgetown Drive
Richardson
TX
75081
United States
ABOUT
Candace Bordelon holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from Texas Woman’s University. Her dissertation, “Finding ‘the Feeling’ Through Movement and Music: An Exploration of Tarab in Oriental Dance,” focused on the performance process in solo Egyptian belly dance, its compositional and emotional relationship with classical Arabic music, and the phenomenon of tarab in both performer and audience. The dissertation captures the aesthetic of tarab as it relates to Oriental dance and its relationship to the ethos of the Arab-Islamic community in which it occurs. The research highlights the contentious debate surrounding views of the female body in Muslim countries and exposes the potential for dance, in particular dance performed by women, as a vehicle for achieving a state of emotional transcendence that is often associated with religious or ritualistic movement practices. In 2007, Dr. Bordelon received a fellowship from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education to travel to Saudi Arabia with the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology. She teaches as an adjunct professor at several community colleges in the North Texas area while also working as a rehabilitation therapist.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Dance
Ethnomusicology
Gender/Women's Studies
History Of Religion
Music
Theater
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Specialties
Islamic Aesthetics
Dance
Ethnomusicology And Tarab
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
French (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| Dance
| Texas Woman\'s University
MA
| 2005
| Dance
| Texas Woman's University
Abstracts
The Emergence of Tarab Through Merging Memories: Oriental Dance, Saidi, and Umm Kulthum
