Title Dancing on violent ground : utopia as dispossession in Euro-American theater dance / Arabella Stanger

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Performance works Performance works. Contents Introduction. Unearthing Choreographic Violence -- "This Monument Must Be Eternal": The Sleeping Beauty's Imperialism -- Frontier to Skyscraper: Graham, Balanchine, and Land as Acquisition -- Dancing Nature, Dancing Artifice: Laban, Schlemmer, and Reactionary Living Diagrams -- Choreographing White Ideality: Cunningham and Black Mountain College -- Coda "A Dancefloor for Everyone": Critical Negativity in Dance Research Summary "Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2021) Subject Dance -- Social aspects -- Europe Dance -- Social aspects -- United States Dance and race. Dance and violence. Choreography -- Social aspects PERFORMING ARTS -- General. Dance -- Social aspects Dance and violence Dance and race Choreography -- Social aspects United States Europe Form Electronic book ISBN 0810144107 9780810144101

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