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Dance and Activism - A Century of Radical Dance Across the World (Hardcover)
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Dance and Activism - A Century of Radical Dance Across the World (Hardcover)
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This study focuses on dance as an activist practice in and of
itself, across geographical locations and over the course of a
century, from 1920 to 2020. Through doing so, it considers how
dance has been an empowering agent for political action throughout
civilisation. Dance and Activism offers a glimpse of different
strategies of mobilizing the human body for good and justice for
all, and captures the increasing political activism epitomized by
bodies moving on the streets in some of the most turbulent
political situations. This has, most recently, undoubtedly been
partly owing to the rise of the far-right internationally, which
has marked an increase in direct action on the streets. Offering a
survey of key events across the century, such as the fall of
President Zuma in South Africa; pro-reproductive rights action in
Poland and Argentina; and the recent women's marches against Donald
Trump's presidency, you will see how dance has become an urgent
field of study. Key geographical locations are explored as sites of
radical dance - the Lower East Side of New York; Gaza; Syria;
Cairo, Iran; Iraq; Johannesburg - to name but a few - and get
insights into some of the major figures in the history of dance,
including Pearl Primus, Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow and Ahmad
Joudah. Crucially, lesser or unknown dancers, who have in some way
influenced politics, all over the world are brought into the
limelight (the Syrian ballerinas and Hussein Smko, for example).
Dance and Activism troubles the boundary between theory and
practice, while presenting concrete case studies as a site for
robust theoretical analysis.
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