{"product_id":"dance-and-politics-moving-beyond-boundaries-9781526105158","title":"Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement, dabke in Palestine and dance as a protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the book explores moments in which the form succeeds in transgressing politics as articulated in words. Close readings and critical analysis grounded in radical democratic theory combine to show how interpreting political dance as 'interruption' can unsettle conceptions of both politics and dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Aimed at an audience of political theorists and dance and performance students and scholars, the technical language and critical readings of Jacques Rancière, among others, can make for heavy going for the untutored enthusiast. But as Mills develops the discussion, she moves away from abstract theory and into a series of case studies that start with Isadora Duncan’s 1907 Musical Moment. It’s at this point that the arguments within \u003ci\u003eDance and politics\u003c\/i\u003e begin to intersect and gain clarity.’\u003cbr\u003eSusan Darlington\u003ci\u003e, The Morning Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries offers a fresh and essentially optimistic\u003cbr\u003eexploration of the political dimensions of dance.’\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Thoms, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, Dance Review Journal\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body\u003cbr\u003e2 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution\u003cbr\u003e3 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics\u003cbr\u003e4 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots dance in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence\u003cbr\u003e6 Dancing human rights\u003cbr\u003eConclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040975520087,"sku":"9781526105158","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526105158.jpg?v=1750948460","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dance-and-politics-moving-beyond-boundaries-9781526105158","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}