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Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

3.5/5 ( ratings)

..". almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." --Signs

..". [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." --Theatre Journal

"This complex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history or the cultural politics of dance." --Dance Theatre Journal

"Mark Franko's Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics is challenging, groundbreaking, insightful, and, I believe, an important contribution to the field of dance scholarship." --Dance Research Journal

A revisionary account of the evolution of "modern dance" in which Mark Franko calls for a historicization of aesthetics that considers the often-ignored political dimension of expressive action. Includes an appendix of articles of left-wing dance theory, which flourished during the 1930s.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: July 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780253209474

Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics

3.5/5 ( ratings)

..". almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." --Signs

..". [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." --Theatre Journal

"This complex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history or the cultural politics of dance." --Dance Theatre Journal

"Mark Franko's Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics is challenging, groundbreaking, insightful, and, I believe, an important contribution to the field of dance scholarship." --Dance Research Journal

A revisionary account of the evolution of "modern dance" in which Mark Franko calls for a historicization of aesthetics that considers the often-ignored political dimension of expressive action. Includes an appendix of articles of left-wing dance theory, which flourished during the 1930s.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: July 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780253209474

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