Dancers as diplomats : American choreography in cultural exchange /
Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Ballet Nations : the New York City Ballet on tour in the Soviet Union in 1962
- Refusing modernist formulas of second-class citizenship : Arthur Mitchell and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Too sexy for export or just sexy enough? : Martha Graham Dance Company on tour
- Negotiating community and diaspora : twenty-first-century dance diplomacy
- Never a solo.