How To Do Things with Dance

How To Do Things with Dance
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9780819571076
ISBN-13 : 0819571075
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Book Synopsis How To Do Things with Dance by : Rebekah J. Kowal

Download or read book How To Do Things with Dance written by Rebekah J. Kowal and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the CORD Outstanding Publication Award (2012) 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 marginalized modes of being could be performed with relative impunity and exerted in the real world. Artists covered include Martha Graham, José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Anna Halprin. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.


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