Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries
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Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Epigraph
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A note on method
Note
1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body
Contraction and release
The strong and weak readings of political dance
Sic-sensuous
Conceptual framework
Note
2 ‘I dreamed of a different dance’: Isadora Duncan’s danced revolution
‘I am a revolutionary: all great artists are revolutionaries’: Isadora Duncan’s strong reading of political dance
The woman who danced the chorus: intervention and inscription
Musical Moment (circa 1907)
Music: Franz Schubert, Moment Musicale, D. 780, Op. 94, No. 3 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2GgIMM060)
Revolutionary (choreographed 1921; premiered 1923)
Music: Aleksandr Scriabin, Douze Etudes, Op. 8, No. 12 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ic5gNsNSM)
Isadora / Duncan: haunting her own boundaries
Conclusion: ‘you were wild once here, don’t let them tame you’
Notes
3 ‘The body says what words cannot’: Martha Graham, dance and politics
‘Movement never lies’: Martha Graham’s complex politics
Martha Graham and State Department-funded tours, 1955–87
Graham’s strong reading of political dance
Lamentation (1930)
Music: Zoltán Kodály (www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgf3xgbKYko)
Night Journey (1947)
Music: William Schumann (www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNsKeMbW20)
‘In my beginning is my end’: from the universal body to universal dissent
Notes
4 ‘I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel’: gumboot dance in South Africa
‘But they have not heard us say it’: the origin, history and aesthetics of gumboot dance
‘We need to speak for ourselves’: choreographic analysis of gumboot dance
Gumboot dancers in Cape Town (2007) (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgFAG0mtac)
Waterford Kamhlaba (2013)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYYYymWvhAI)
‘Wake up, Mother Africa, Wake up, before the white man rapes you’: gumboot dance and The Hungry Earth
Conclusions: a dance of their own
Note
5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence
One Billion Rising: dance against violence in ethos and practice
The flash mob as the non-universal
Conclusions: the failure of universality and the transformation of the body: rising together beyond unison
Notes
6 Dancing human rights
Human rights in a performed sic-sensuous
Dabke: political space for a sovereign state in the making
The expanding line of the dabke dance into a state-in-becoming
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdrGrRmdvfA)
Arkadi Zaides’s Archive: protest against human rights violations through dance
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZW25c9Ulg)
Conclusions: a danced conception of human rights
Note
Conclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope
References
Index
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