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Funding Bodies is essential reading for scholars of dance and performance studies, the history of US arts funding, and US arts policy. Wilbur productively complicates extant histories of the NEA using impeccable archival and ethnographic research, exemplary theorizing of policy making as choreography, and engaging prose.--Judith Hamera, professor of dance and American studies, Princeton University For those wanting to understand how dance moves from the studio into public consciousness, this book is indispensable. Funding Bodies offers a compelling assessment, showing how dance bureaucrats and philanthropists have choregraphed the U.S. dance infrastructure, affecting the dancers we see on stage and how we value them.--Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Ph.D, associate professor, performance as public practice, Co-Editor, Artivate: a Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Funding Bodies is essential reading for scholars of dance and performance studies, the history of US arts funding, and US arts policy. Wilbur productively complicates extant histories of the NEA using impeccable archival and ethnographic research, exemplary theorizing of policy making as choreography, and engaging prose. --Judith Hamera, professor of dance and American studies, Princeton University For those wanting to understand how dance moves from the studio into public consciousness, this book is indispensable. Funding Bodies offers a compelling assessment, showing how dance bureaucrats and philanthropists have choregraphed the U.S. dance infrastructure, affecting the dancers we see on stage and how we value them. --Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Ph.D, associate professor, performance as public practice, Co-Editor, Artivate: a Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

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SARAH WILBUR (Durham, NC) is assistant professor of the practice/dance at Duke University and visiting assistant professor of curatorial practice in performance at Wesleyan University.

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