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Don´t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture
Catherine Gunther Kodat
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Description for Don´t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture
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At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told “don’t act, dear; just dance.” The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps—but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio.
Drawing on fresh archival material, Don’t Act, Just Dance places dance at the center of the story of the relationship between Cold War art and politics. Catherine Gunther Kodat takes ... Read more
At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told “don’t act, dear; just dance.” The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps—but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio.
Drawing on fresh archival material, Don’t Act, Just Dance places dance at the center of the story of the relationship between Cold War art and politics. Catherine Gunther Kodat takes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813565279
SKU
V9780813565279
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About Catherine Gunther Kodat
CATHERINE GUNTHER KODAT is the dean of the Division of Liberal Arts and a professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Reviews for Don´t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture
"This book is a tour de force, a grand jeté, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture."
Virginia Jackson
University of California-Irvine
"Don’t Act, Just Dance is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's ... Read more
Virginia Jackson
University of California-Irvine
"Don’t Act, Just Dance is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's ... Read more