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Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

Hardcover

DanceGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0253065410
ISBN13: 9780253065414
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th century.

A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an appendix of left-wing dance theory articles from the 1930s. Questioning assumptions that dancing reflects culture, Franko employs a unique interdisciplinary approach to dance analysis that draws from cultural theory, feminist studies, and sexual, class, and modernist politics. Franko also highlights the stories of such dancers as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and even revolutionaries like Douglas Dunn in order to upend and contradict ideas on autonomy and traditionally accepted modernist dance history.

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