- The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Tracking the Political Economy of Dance
- Dance and/as Competition in the Privately Owned US Studio
- Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance Politics and Practice
- Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics
- Performing Collectively
- Urban Choreographies: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space
- The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography
- Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation
- Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel
- Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought
- The Politics of Perception
- The Politics of Speaking about the Body
- Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics
- Of Corporeal Rewritings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing
- Planning for Death’s Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham
- Dancing D-Day
- Dance and Politics in China: Interculturalism, Hybridity, and the ArtsCross Project
- Between the Cultural Center and the Villa : Dance, Neoliberalism, and Silent Borders in Buenos Aires
- Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux
- The Micropolitics of Exchange: Exile and Otherness after the Nation
- Black Swan, White Nose
- Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones
- Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
- Politics of Fake It!: Janez Janša Interviewed by Janez Janša
- Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way
- Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH
- Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition
- Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism
- Is It OK to Dance on Graves?: Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In the form of a lyric essay, this chapter offers perspectives of artists across the field coping with the messages delivered, received, and absorbed in the dance world. From the atmosphere in the studio that primes the young dancer with particular ideas around his or her training, to the complicated and sometimes confusing conditions and processes of creating dances, this work discusses artists’ challenges with garnering support, with the steps toward and negotiations around being presented, as well as relationships with peers, the receipt and offering (or lack thereof) of criticism in both informal and formal arenas, and ultimately survival in their complicated, beloved field of dance. This chapter questions the psychological, material, and political conditions of practitioners in the field, offering its content as a means to consider the layered, complicated nature of choosing dance as a way of life in contemporary North America.
Keywords: dance, training, criticism, psychology, material, political
University of Illinois
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- The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Tracking the Political Economy of Dance
- Dance and/as Competition in the Privately Owned US Studio
- Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance Politics and Practice
- Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics
- Performing Collectively
- Urban Choreographies: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space
- The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography
- Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation
- Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel
- Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought
- The Politics of Perception
- The Politics of Speaking about the Body
- Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics
- Of Corporeal Rewritings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing
- Planning for Death’s Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham
- Dancing D-Day
- Dance and Politics in China: Interculturalism, Hybridity, and the ArtsCross Project
- Between the Cultural Center and the Villa : Dance, Neoliberalism, and Silent Borders in Buenos Aires
- Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux
- The Micropolitics of Exchange: Exile and Otherness after the Nation
- Black Swan, White Nose
- Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones
- Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
- Politics of Fake It!: Janez Janša Interviewed by Janez Janša
- Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way
- Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH
- Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition
- Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism
- Is It OK to Dance on Graves?: Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited
- Index