Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Author:   Ramsay Burt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415145947


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   05 March 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance


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This work looks at dance in Germany, France and the USA during the 1920s and 1930s. Including ballet, modern dance, and dance in the cinema and Revue, it explores the work of European, African American and white American artists. Concerned with how artists respond to the disturbing and alienating experience of modern life, this book focuses on issues of: national and ""racial"" identity; new spaces of modernity; the ""New Woman"" and the slender modern body; and fascist uses of mass spectacles. Artists whose work is examined include: Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Lege, Jean Borlin, Valeska Gert, Kurt Jooss, George Balanchine, Katherine Dunham and Doris Humphrey.

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Author:   Ramsay Burt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415145947


ISBN 10:   0415145945
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   05 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Choreographing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity; Chapter 3 ‘Savage’ Dancer; Chapter 4 The Chorus Line and the Efficiency Engineers; Chapter 5 Totalitarianism and the Mass Ornament; Chapter 6 Dancing Across the Atlantic; Chapter 7 American Moderns; Chapter 8 Primitivism, Modernism and Ritual in the Work of Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

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"""To this collective enterprise Ramsay Burt's ""Alien Bodies makes a notable contribution. ...I cannot imagine pursuing my work without going back to ""Alien Bodies again and again."" -""The Drama Review"


To this collective enterprise Ramsay Burt's Alien Bodies makes a notable contribution. ...I cannot imagine pursuing my work without going back to Alien Bodies again and again. - The Drama Review


To this collective enterprise Ramsay Burt's Alien Bodies makes a notable contribution. ...I cannot imagine pursuing my work without going back to Alien Bodies again and again. - The Drama Review


To this collective enterprise Ramsay Burt's Alien Bodies makes a notable contribution. ...I cannot imagine pursuing my work without going back to Alien Bodies again and again. <br>- The Drama Review <br>


Author Information

Ramsay Burt is the author of the highly acclaimed The Male Dancer. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in Dance at De Montfort University.

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