Dance and politics
Moving beyond boundaries| By: | Dana Mills |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| eText ISBN: | 9781526105165 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.