Choreographic politics : state folk dance companies, representation, and power / Anthony Shay.
Material type: TextPublisher: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0819565202
- 9780819565204
- 0819565210
- 9780819565211
- 793.31 21
- GV1588.45 .S5 2002
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 793.31 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A424361B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnicity and Nationalism -- 1. Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles and Folk Dance in the Field -- 2. Anatomy of a Dance Company -- 3. The Moiseyev Dance Company: Ancestor of the Genre -- 4. Ballet Folklorico: Viva Mexico! -- 5. LADO, ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Croatia: Proper Peasants -- 6. Egypt: Bazaar of Dance -- 7. Greece: Dora Stratou Greek Dances Theatre, A Living Museum -- 8. Turkish State Folk Dance Ensemble: The Last of the Great Ensembles -- 9. Conclusion: The Power of Representation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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