Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics - Softcover

Franko, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253209471 ISBN 13: 9780253209474

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995

Synopsis

"... 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 Journal

A 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.

About this title

Book Description:

1996 Special Citation, Dance Perspectives Foundation

From the Back Cover:

Employing an interdisciplinary approach to dance analysis, Franko draws from performance studies, feminist studies, and cultural theory to study modern dance in relation to sexual, class, and modernist politics, ranging from Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham to less canonical figures, such as Valentine de Saint-Point, left-wing 'revolutionary' dancers of the 1930s, and Douglas Dunn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0253209471
• ISBN 13: 9780253209474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208