Dancing on violent ground : utopia as dispossession in Euro-American theater dance /

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"Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stanger, Arabella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Performance works.
Subjects:
Dance > Social aspects > Europe.
Dance > Social aspects > United States.
Dance and race.
Dance and violence.
Choreography > Social aspects.
Danse > Aspect social > Europe.
Danse > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Danse et race.
Danse et violence.
Chorégraphie > Aspect social.
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
Dance > Social aspects.
United States.
Europe.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Unearthing Choreographic Violence
  • "This Monument Must Be Eternal": The Sleeping Beauty's Imperialism
  • Frontier to Skyscraper: Graham, Balanchine, and Land as Acquisition
  • Dancing Nature, Dancing Artifice: Laban, Schlemmer, and Reactionary Living Diagrams
  • Choreographing White Ideality: Cunningham and Black Mountain College
  • Coda "A Dancefloor for Everyone": Critical Negativity in Dance Research.

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