Dancing on Violent Ground: Utopia as Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance

by Arabella Stanger

Book Overview

The politics of theater dance is commonly theorized in relation to bodily freedom, resistance, agitation, or repair. This book questions those utopian imaginaries, arguing that the visions and sensations of canonical Euro-American choreographies carry hidden forms of racial violence, not in the sense of the physical or psychological traumas arising in the practice of these arts but through the histories of social domination that materially underwrite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144085
• ISBN13: 9780810144088
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"