Dance and Politics - Moving Beyond Boundaries

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body2 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution3 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics4 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots dance in South Africa5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence6 Dancing human rightsConclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hopeIndex

Product details

• Authors: Dana Mills, Mills Dana
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9781526105158
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0515-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Dance, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Dance; Politic; bodies; radical democratic theory