Using new archival discoveries and interviews, Honest Bodies illustrates how Anna Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism internationally from the 1930s to the 1960s. Author Hannah Kosstrin argues that Sokolow's dances embodied the relationship between Communist ideals and Jewish culture.
Using new archival discoveries and interviews, Honest Bodies illustrates how Anna Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism internationally from the 1930s to the 1960s. Author Hannah Kosstrin argues that Sokolow's dances embodied the relationship between Communist ideals and Jewish culture.
Hannah Kosstrin researches Jewishness, gender, and movement analysis in modern and contemporary dance. At The Ohio State University, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance and is affiliated with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies.
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* Contents * Preface: Honest Bodies * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Dances of All Nations: Choreographing Communism * 2. Revolutionary Exile in Postrevolutionary Mexico City: Jewishness and Mexican Modernism * 3. The Wandering Frog that Did Not Travel Well: Jewishness, Mexicanidad, and Ethnic Dance * 4. White Rooms, Red Scare: Sokolow Defines America * 5. Modernist Forms in a Jewish State * Epilogue: No Fists in the Air: Anna Sokolow and the Cold War * Selected Bibliography * Index
* Contents * Preface: Honest Bodies * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Dances of All Nations: Choreographing Communism * 2. Revolutionary Exile in Postrevolutionary Mexico City: Jewishness and Mexican Modernism * 3. The Wandering Frog that Did Not Travel Well: Jewishness, Mexicanidad, and Ethnic Dance * 4. White Rooms, Red Scare: Sokolow Defines America * 5. Modernist Forms in a Jewish State * Epilogue: No Fists in the Air: Anna Sokolow and the Cold War * Selected Bibliography * Index
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