Revolutionary bodies : Chinese dance and the socialist legacy / Emily Wilcox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilcox, Emily, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--China--History.

Dance.

Choreography.

History.

Socialism and dance.

China.

Socialism and dance--China--History.

Choreography--China--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Revolutionary Bodies is the first primary source-based history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, it analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Emily Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China's dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Locating Chinese dance : bodies in place, history, and genre

From Trinidad to Beijing : Dai Ailian and the beginnings of Chinese dance

Experiments in form : creating dance in the early People's Republic

Performing a socialist nation : the golden age of Chinese dance

A revolt from within : contextualizing revolutionary ballet

The return of Chinese dance : socialist continuity post Mao

Inheriting the socialist legacy : Chinese dance in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wilcox, Emily, 1981- Revolutionary bodies.

ISBN:

9780520300576

0520300572

OCLC:

1042829106