Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries

by Dana Mills

Book Overview

This book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement, dabke in Palestine and dance as a protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the book explores moments in which the form succeeds in transgressing politics as articulated in words. Close readings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526105152
• ISBN13: 9781526105158
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"