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Choreographic politics : state folk dance companies, representation, and power / Anthony Shay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0819565202
  • 9780819565204
  • 0819565210
  • 9780819565211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.31 21
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.45 .S5 2002
Contents:
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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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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