Dancers as diplomats : American choreography in cultural exchange /

• Main Author: Croft, Clare (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Subjects: Χορός > Κοινωνικές απόψεις; Διπλωματία; Πολιτιστικές σχέσεις; Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Εξωτερικές σχέσεις

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...

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.