Dancing modernism/performing politics [electronic resource] / Mark Franko.

Annotation " ... almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance."--Signs" ... [an] important step ... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Franko, Mark
Other title:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Politics of Expression
  • 1. The Invention of Modern Dance
  • 2. Bodies of Radical Will
  • 3. Emotivist Movement and Histories of Modernism: The Case of Martha Graham
  • 4. Expressivism and Chance Procedure: The Future of an Emotion
  • 5. Where He Danced
  • Appendix: Left-Wing Dance Theory: Articles on Dance from New Theatre, New Masses, and Daily Worker.