How to do things with dance
Subtitle: performing change in postwar America
By: Rebekah J. Kowal.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Brand: Wesleyan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780819568977; 9780819568984
Subjects: Modern dance -- Social aspects; Postmodernism; United States -- History -- 1945-
Description: "Integrating dance into U.S. social and political life, Rebekah Kowal's book demonstrates persuasively that mid-century dance initiatives contributed crucial innovations to modern dance while also vitally engaging with the tensions within the American body politic that would lead to the fights for racial and gender equality in the 1960s. Her research combines meticulous scholarship with a broad and insightful command of U.S. history."--Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles<BR><BR>"Kowal convincingly argues that the most salient point of postwar American dance was not the insularity of objectivism but the engagement of action. By questioning the normative movement practices inscribed on our bodies, choreographers like Sokolow, Cunningham, and Halprin bridged method acting and the sit-ins."--Daniel Belgrad, author of Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.