Dana Mills

Dance and politics (eBook, ePUB)

Moving beyond boundaries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement, dabke in Palestine and dance as a protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the book explores moments in which the form succeeds in transgressing politics as articulated in words. Close readings and critical analysis grounded in radical democratic theory combine to show how interpreting political dance as 'interruption' can unsettle conceptions of both politics and dance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105165
• Artikelnr.: 55006148

Autorenporträt

Dana Mills is College Lecturer in Politics at Hertford College, University of Oxford. In 2016-17 she was Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University and Visiting Scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, New York. Alongside her academic interests she is a dancer and a political activist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body 2 'I dreamed
of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution 3 'The body says
what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics 4 'I want to tell
them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots dance in South Africa
5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered
violence 6 Dancing human rights Conclusions: the dancer of the future
dancing radical hope Index