How to Do Things with Dance Performing Change in Postwar America

Name: How to Do Things with Dance Performing Change in Postwar America
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ISBN: 9780819568984

ISBN-10: 0819568988

ISBN-13: 9780819568984

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rebekah J. Kowal

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In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement. How To Do Things with Dance positions modern dance as a vital critical discourse, and suggests that dances of the late 1940s and the 1950s can be seen as compelling agents of social change. Concentrating on choreographers whose artistic work conceived dance in terms of action, Rebekah J. Kowal shows how specific choreographic projects demonstrated increasing awareness of the stage as a penetrable space, one on which socially suspect or…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Modern Dance and the Cultural Turn to Action


Setting the Stage: Modern Dance Universalism and the Culture of Containment


Precursors to Action: Martha Graham and Jose Limon


Action is Ordinary: Anna Sokolow


Action is Effective: Pearl Primus


Action is Finding Subjectivity: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor


The Uses of Action 1: Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham and Donald McKayle


The Uses of Action 2: Anna Halprin


Notes


References


Index