Screen LibraryDancers 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...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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 shaped and sometimes reimagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances - pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy interviews with da |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index. |
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9780199958214 0199958211 9780199958191 019995819X |
| Index Number: | GV1588 |
| CLC: | J70-05 |
| Call Number: | J70-05/C941 |
| 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 -- Appendix A: List of interviewees by company and tour -- Appendix B: International dance tours described in Dancers As Diplomats.. |