Alien Bodies Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

Name: Alien Bodies Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
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ISBN: 9780415145947

ISBN-10: 0415145945

ISBN-13: 9780415145947

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ramsay Burt

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Blurring the conventional distinction between modern dance and ballet, African American dance, gymnastics and dancing as popular entertainment,Alien Bodieslooks at the way the dance of the 1920s and 1930s mediated the experience of modernity. Through an examination of work by key dancers and choreographers including Josephine Baker, Jean Borlin, George Balanchine, Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey,Alien Bodiesshows that during the jazz age dance became a privileged site for defining the lived experiences of modernity and contributed to the creation of new desires and identities.

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/26/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Choreographing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity



'Savage' Dancer: Tout Paris Goes to See Josephine Baker



The Chorus Line and the Efficiency Engineers



Totalitarianism and the Mass Ornament



Dancing Across the Atlantic



American Moderns



Primitivism, Modernism and the Ritual in the Works of Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index