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Don't act, just dance

the metapolitics of cold war culture
Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Gunther Kodat, Catherine
Verfasserangabe: Catherine Gunther Kodat
Medienkennzeichen: SKH
Jahr: c 2015
Verlag: New Brunswick ; New Jersey and London, Ruttgers University Press
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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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Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Gunther Kodat, Catherine
Verfasserangabe: Catherine Gunther Kodat
Medienkennzeichen: SKH
Jahr: c 2015
Verlag: New Brunswick ; New Jersey and London, Ruttgers University Press
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ISBN: 081356526
Beschreibung: XIV, 210 Seiten : Illustrationen
Schlagwörter: USA; Ost-West-Konflikt; Kulturgeschichte; Tanzgeschichte; Politik; 20. Jahrhundert
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Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index
Mediengruppe: Buch