Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

by Andrew Hewitt

Book Overview

Through the concept of "social choreography" Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233514X
• ISBN13: 9780822335146
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"