The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

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Rebekah Kowal is Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her first book, How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) investigates how moving bodies are compelling agents of social, cultural and political change. Her current project assesses the impact of postwar global dance performance on American concert dance formations and in the context of U.S. foreign relations, immigration and trade policies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and citizenship. Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany where he teaches courses in theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. He has published widely on contemporary dance and theatre. Amongst his publications are William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag, 2004) and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (together with Stefan Hölscher, Diaphanes 2013). Randy Martin (1957-2015) was Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and founder of the graduate program in arts politics. He published many books as author or editor, including The Financialization of Daily Life and Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn; An Empire of Indifference; Critical Moves and On Your Marx. An edited volume is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press: Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, with Benjamin Lee.

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics presents cutting edge research investigating not only how dance achieves its politics, but also how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance.

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In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that address the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability, postcolonial, and critical race and queer studies. In six sections 30 of the most prestigious dance scholars in the US and Europe track the political economy of dance and analyze the political dimensions of choreography, of writing history, and of embodied phenomena in general. Employing years of intimate knowledge of dance and its cultural phenomenology, scholars urge readers to re-think dominant cultural codes, their usages, and the meaning they produce and theorize ways dance may help to re-signify and to re-negotiate established cultural practices and their inherent power relations. This handbook poses ever-present questions about dance politics-which aspects or effects of a dance can be considered political? What possibilities and understandings of politics are disclosed through dance? How does a particular dance articulate or undermine forces of authority? How might dance relate to emancipation or bondage of the body? Where and how can dance articulate social movements, represent or challenge political institutions, or offer insight into habits of labor and leisure? The handbook opens its critical terms in two directions. First, it offers an elaborated understanding of how dance achieves its politics. Second, it illustrates how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance, thus addressing both the relationship between the politics in dance and the politics of dance. Using the most sophisticated theoretical frameworks and engaging with the problematics that come from philosophy, social science, history, and the humanities, chapters explore the affinities, affiliations, concepts, and critiques that are inherent in the act of dance, and questions about matters political that dance makes legible.

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• 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin

• Part I: Dancing Structures

• Section I. The Political Economy of Dance

• 2. Tracking the Political Economy of Dance - Jane Desmond
• 3. Dance and/as Competition in the U.S. Privately Owned Studio - Susan Foster
• 4. Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance,

• Politics, and Practice - Brenda Dixon Gottschild

• 5. Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics - Cynthia Oliver
• 6. Performing Collectively, Performing Collectivity - Kai van Eikels

• Section II. The Politics of Choreography

• 7. Urban Choreographies. Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space - Gabriele Klein
• 8. The Politics of Speculative Imagination in

• Contemporary Choreography - Andre Lepecki

• 9. Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation - Mark Franko
• 10. Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in

• the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel - Gerald Siegmund

• 11. Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of

• Thought - Bojana Cvejic

• Section III. The Politics of Embodiment

• 12. The Politics of Perception - Ann Cooper Albright
• 13. The Politics of Speaking About the Body - Ramsay Burt
• 14. Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied

• Politics - Petra Kuppers

• 15. Of Corporeal Re-writings, Translations, and the

• Politics of Difference in Dancing - Ananya Chatterjea

• 16. Planning for Death's Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham - Peggy Phelan

• Part 2: Dancing Interventions

• Section IV. The Politics of Histories

• 17. Dancing D-Day - Felicia McCarren
• 18. China in the Throes of Modernization: Intercultural Exchange,

• Hybridity, and ArtsCross - Alexandra Kolb

• 19. Between the Cultural Center and the Villa: Dance,

• Neoliberalism and Silent Borders in Buenos Aires - Victoria Fortuna

• 20. Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux - Susan Manning
• 21. The Micropolitics of Exchange: Rethinking Exile and Otherness

• after the Nation - Kate Elswit

• Section V. The Politics of Re-Signification

• 22. Black Swan, White Nose - Hannah Schwadron
• 23. Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The

• Emperor Jones - James Moreno

• 24. SWITCH: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership,

• and Black Popular Culture - Thomas DeFrantz

• 25. Politics of Fake It! Janez Jansa interviewed by Janez Jansa - Janez Jansa

• Section VI. The Politics of Re-Negotiation

• 26. Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon

• Living in a Great Big Way - Nadine George-Graves

• 27. Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous

• Presence and the Contemporary Choreography of Emily

• Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH - Jacqueline Shea Murphy

• 28. Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition - Bojana Kunst
• 29. Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies

• Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism - Priya Srinivasan

• 30. Is it OK to Dance on Graves? Modernism and Socialist

• Realism Revisited - Jens Giersdorf