Dance and politics : : moving beyond boundaries / / Dana Mills.

• VerfasserIn: Mills, Dana, 1981-
• TeilnehmendeR: Manchester University Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Manchester Political Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

In this book Dana Mills examines the political power of dance from a global perspective. Mills explores different dimensions of dance as a form of intervention into a politics more commonly articulated in words. She is interested in dance as a system of communication that allows its subjects to speak with their bodies and to create embodied spaces, drawing attention to the radically egalitarian nature of dance with its ability to transcend all boundaries of gender, race and sexual politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction --1. Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body --2. 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution --3. 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics --4. 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots dance in South Africa --5. Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence --6. Dancing human rights --Conclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope --Index.