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226 Pages·2014·5.3 MB·English
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by Catherine Gunther Kodat| 2014| 226 pages| 5.3| English

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At some point in their career nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told don t act dear just dance The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio Drawing on fresh archival material Don t Act Just Dance places dance at the center of the story of the relationship between Cold War art and politics Catherine Gunther Kodat takes Balanchine s catch phrase as an invitation to explore the politics of Cold War culture in particular to examine the assumptions underlying the role of apolitical modernism in U S cultural diplomacy Through close theoretically informed readings of selected important works Marianne Moore s Combat Cultural dances by George Balanchine Merce Cunningham and Yuri Grigorovich Stanley Kubrick s Spartacus and John Adams s Nixon in China Kodat questions several commonly held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War Rather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture Don t Act Just Dance reads Cold War culture through the dance and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period

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Author:Catherine Gunther Kodat
Publication Year:2014
ISBN:9780813565286
Pages:226
Language:English
File Size:5.3
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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