Dancing Jewish : Jewish identity in american modern and postmodern dance /
Rossen, Rebecca,
Dancing Jewish : Jewish identity in american modern and postmodern dance / Rebecca Rossen - XVII, 312 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cm
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Conté: Introduction -- Prelude: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act I: Dancing the Jew -- Chapter 1: The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Hasidic Drag -- Chapter 2: Biblical Heroines and Anti-Heroines -- Chapter 3: The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick -- Entr'acte: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act II: Dancing Jewish -- Chapter 4: Dancing Folk: Jewish Memory and Amnesia -- Chapter 5: Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict -- Conclusion: Dancing Jewish, Dancing American -- Curtain Call: Dance Me My Jewish Dance -- Bibliography -- Index
"While Jews are commonly referred to as the "People of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Victoria Marks, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart." -- Contracoberta
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Dancing Jewish : Jewish identity in american modern and postmodern dance / Rebecca Rossen - XVII, 312 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cm
Inclou bibliografia i índex
Conté: Introduction -- Prelude: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act I: Dancing the Jew -- Chapter 1: The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Hasidic Drag -- Chapter 2: Biblical Heroines and Anti-Heroines -- Chapter 3: The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick -- Entr'acte: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act II: Dancing Jewish -- Chapter 4: Dancing Folk: Jewish Memory and Amnesia -- Chapter 5: Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict -- Conclusion: Dancing Jewish, Dancing American -- Curtain Call: Dance Me My Jewish Dance -- Bibliography -- Index
"While Jews are commonly referred to as the "People of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Victoria Marks, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart." -- Contracoberta
9780199791767 9780199791774
2908367
Dansa contemporània--Estats Units d'Amèrica
Jueus en l'art--Estats Units d'Amèrica
Jueus--Estats Units d'Amèrica--Identitat
Estats Units d'Amèrica--Civilització--Influència jueva
793.5(73)