- 144 pages
- English
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About this book
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, it explores moments in which the form succeeds in transgressing politics as articulated in words. Close readings and critical analysis grounded in radical democratic theory combine to show how reading political dance as 'interruption' can unsettle conceptions of both politics and dance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body
- 2 āI dreamed of a different danceā: Isadora Duncanās danced revolution
- 3 āThe body says what words cannotā: Martha Graham, dance and politics
- 4 āI want to tell them how I feel and how black people feelā: gumboot dance in South Africa
- 5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence
- 6 Dancing human rights
- Conclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope
- References
- Index