Alien bodies : representations of modernity, "race," and nation in early modern dance /
Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and modern dance, dance in the cinema and Revue, Ramsay Burt looks at the work of European, African American, and white American artists. Among the artists w...
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London ; New York :
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Choreographing the disturbing new spaces of modernity
- 3. 'Savage' dancer: Tout Paris goes to see Josephine Baker
- 4. The chorus line and the efficiency engineers
- 5. Totalitarianism and the mass ornament
- 6. Dancing across the Atlantic
- 7. American moderns
- 8. Primitivism, modernism and ritual in the work of Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham
- 9. Conclusion.