- 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
- <i>Black Swan</i>, 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
This chapter considers a commission from the French Ministry of Defense for a choreography performed for heads of state in 2014; on the seventieth anniversary of the Allied landing at Normandy. French and US presidents referred to the “freedom” won in the historic battles, staged by the dance piece referred to as the “key” to the day’s events. Considering alternate meanings of the word “free,” this chapter urges consideration of the economic model subtending discussions of dance as a practice of “freedom.” Are dancers supported by state funding in France “less free”? Are dancers “on the market” freer? The political uses of dance in the French Republic, which the author explored in her book French Moves, as well as their economic motivations, are analyzed in this chapter in the context of the D-Day commemoration.
Keywords: France, dance, choreography, hip hop dance, D-Day, Allied landing, Normandy
Tulane University
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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
- <i>Black Swan</i>, 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
