附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-188) and index.
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.
摘要: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, and betweeen present and past."--Theatre Journal"This complex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history or the cultural politics of dance."--Dance Theatre Journal"Mark Franko's Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics is challenging, groundbreaking, insightful, and, I believe, an important contribution to the field of dance scholarship."--Dance Research JournalA revisionary account of the evolution of "modern dance" in which Mark Franko calls for a historicization of aesthetics that considers the often-ignored political dimension of expressive action. Includes an appendix of articles of left-wing dance theory, which flourished during the 1930s.
