Dance and politics : : moving beyond boundaries / / Dana Mills.
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 spea...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester Political Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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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.