"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 morebrilliant meta-political analyses of works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick, and Marianne Moore. I cannot recommend this book too highly."
Harilaos Stecopoulos
author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976
"An important manifesto for dance as a subject of serious scholarly attention in academic disciplines beyond dance history and dance studies … the book's final case studies are brilliant comparative meditations on the complex, multilayered relationship between Cold War art and politics."
Dance Chronicle
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