Don't Act, Just Dance : : The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture / / Catherine Gunther Kodat.
At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told "don't act, dear; just dance." The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to...
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Kodat, Catherine Gunther, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Don't Act, Just Dance : The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture / Catherine Gunther Kodat. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (256 p.) : 12 photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told "don't act, dear; just dance." The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps-but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio. Drawing on fresh archival material, Don't Act, Just Dance places dance at the center of the story of the relationship between Cold War art and politics. Catherine Gunther Kodat takes Balanchine's catch phrase as an invitation to explore the politics of Cold War culture-in particular, to examine the assumptions underlying the role of "apolitical" modernism in U.S. cultural diplomacy. Through close, theoretically informed readings of selected important works-Marianne Moore's "Combat Cultural," dances by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, and Yuri Grigorovich, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, and John Adams's Nixon in China-Kodat questions several commonly-held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War. Rather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture, Don't Act, Just Dance reads Cold War culture through the dance, and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) Cold War Influence. Cold War Social aspects United States. Cultural diplomacy History 20th century United States. Dance Political aspects History 20th century United States. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet. Performing arts History 20th century United States. Politics and culture United States. Popular culture History 20th century United States. (DE-588)4003846-4 (DE-627)10438896X (DE-576)208852972 Außenpolitik gnd (DE-588)4059028-8 (DE-627)106144979 (DE-576)209129018 Tanz gnd (DE-588)4059787-8 (DE-627)106142275 (DE-576)209132256 Theorie gnd (DE-588)4069027-1 (DE-627)106104470 (DE-576)209175362 Auswärtige Kulturpolitik gnd (DE-588)4075770-5 (DE-627)106084968 (DE-576)209199482 Ost-West-Konflikt gnd (DE-588)4144383-4 (DE-627)104434090 (DE-576)209733640 Beispiel gnd HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110666151 print 9780813565279 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813565286 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813565286 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813565286/original |
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