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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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Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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 worksPerformance works.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-224) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *MGRL 21-3481