Clare Croft

Dancers as Diplomats

American Choreography in Cultural Exchange

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Produktbeschreibung

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy, telling the story of how these tours in shaped and sometimes re-imagined ideas of America in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma in the days just before the country held its first democratic elections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199958214
• ISBN-10: 0199958211
• Artikelnr.: 47866486

Autorenporträt

Clare Croft is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter One: Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet on Tour in the
Soviet Union in 1962
* Chapter Two: Refusing Modernist Formulas of Second-Class Citizenship:
Arthur Mitchell and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
* Chapter Three: Too Sexy for Export or Just Sexy Enough: Martha Graham
Dance Company
* Chapter Four: Negotiating Community and Diaspora: Twenty-First
Century Dance Diplomacy
* Chapter Five: Never A Solo
* Appendix A: List of Interviews
* Appendix B: List of US State Department Tours
* References
* Index