Dancing the World Smaller - Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honoring difference.

About the author

Rebekah J. Kowal is Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa and author of How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America and co-editor with Randy Martin and Gerald Siegmund of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics. She is currently serving as co-executive editor of Dance Research Journal.

Summary

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honoring difference.

Additional text

With Dancing the World Smaller, Kowal makes a significant contribution to the fields of dance history, political cultural studies, and dance research, in general.

Product details

• Authors: Kowal , Rebekah Kowal, Rebekah (Associate Professor of Dance Kowal, Rebekah J. Kowal, Rebekah J. (Associate Professor of Dance Kowal, Kowal Rebekah J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780190265311
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026531-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory; Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, Ballet, Contemporary Dance