Dance and politics : moving beyond boundaries / Dana Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Dana, 1981- author.

Contributor:

Mills, Dana, contributor.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Manchester Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Political aspects.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In this book Dana Mills examines the political power of dance from a global perspective. Mills explores different dimensions of dance as a form of intervention into a politics more commonly articulated in words. She is interested in dance as a system of communication that allows its subjects to speak with their bodies and to create embodied spaces, drawing attention to the radically egalitarian nature of dance with its ability to transcend all boundaries of gender, race and sexual politics.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body

2. 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution

3. 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics

4. 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots 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

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526105158

1526105152

9781526105165

1526105160

OCLC:

968339961

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access