Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

Author:   Mark Franko ,  Juan Ignacio Vallejos
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Edition:   Revised Edition
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9780253065421


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 May 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mark Franko ,  Juan Ignacio Vallejos
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Edition:   Revised Edition
ISBN:  

9780253065421


ISBN 10:   0253065429
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Geneaology and Event in the Work of Mark Franko, by Juan Ignacio Vallejos Preface Introduction: The Politics of Expression 1. The Invention of Modern Dance 2. Bodies of Radical Will 3. Emotivist Movement and Histories of Modernism: The Case of Martha Graham 4. Expressivism and Chance Procedure: The Future of an Emotion 5. Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath Appendix: Left-Wing Dance Theory: Articles on Dance from New Theatre, New Masses, and Daily Worker Notes Bibliography Index

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Almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance. --Signs [An] important step . . . in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and between present and past. --Theatre Journal This complex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history or the cultural politics of dance. --Dance Theatre Journal Mark Franko's Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics is challenging, groundbreaking, insightful, and . . . important contribution to the field of dance scholarship. --Dance Research Journal


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Mark Franko is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at Temple University. He is author of The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar: Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation and founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series.

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