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

Title
Dancing on violent ground : utopia as dispossession in Euro-American theater dance / Arabella Stanger.
Author
Stanger, Arabella
Publication
  • Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
xi, 233 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Performance works
Uniform Title
Performance works.
Subject
  • Dance > Social aspects > Europe
  • Dance > Social aspects > United States
  • Dance and race
  • Dance and violence
  • Choreography > Social aspects
  • Dance > Social aspects
  • Europe
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-224) and index.
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.
Call Number
*MGRL 21-3481
ISBN
  • 9780810144088
  • 0810144085
  • 9780810144095
  • 0810144093
LCCN
2021017048
OCLC
1241244406
Author
Stanger, Arabella, author.
Title
Dancing on violent ground : utopia as dispossession in Euro-American theater dance / Arabella Stanger.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Performance works
Performance works.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-224) and index.
Research Call Number
*MGRL 21-3481
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