Clare Croft

Dancers as Diplomats (eBook, ePUB)

American Choreography in Cultural Exchange

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy interviews with dancers who traveled on the tours, the book looks at a wide range of American dance companies, among them New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, ODC/Dance, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and the Trey McIntyre Project, among others. During the Cold War, companies danced everywhere from the Soviet Union to Vietnam, just months before the US abandoned Saigon. In the post 9/11 era, dance companies traveled to Asia and Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190226312
• Artikelnr.: 42369928

Autorenporträt

Clare Croft is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter One: Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet on Tour in the
Soviet Union in 1962
* Chapter Two: Refusing Modernist Formulas of Second-Class Citizenship:
Arthur Mitchell and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
* Chapter Three: Too Sexy for Export or Just Sexy Enough: Martha Graham
Dance Company
* Chapter Four: Negotiating Community and Diaspora: Twenty-First
Century Dance Diplomacy
* Chapter Five: Never A Solo
* Appendix A: List of Interviews
* Appendix B: List of US State Department Tours
* References
* Index