Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
ISBN: 978-1-138-30047-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limón and Hawkins’ work during a time when modern dance was forming new relationships to academic and governmental institutions, mainstream markets, and notions of embodiment. The pre-war expressionist tradition championed by Limón and Hawkins’ mentors faced multiple challenges as ballet and Broadway complicated the tenets of modernism and emerging modern dance choreographers faced an increasingly conservative post-war culture framed by the Cold War and Red Scare. By bringing the work of Limón and Hawkins together in one volume, Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins accesses two distinct approaches to training and performance that proved highly influential in creating post-war dialogues on race, gender, and embodiment.
This book approaches Limón and Hawkins’ training regimes and performing strategies as social practices symbiotically entwined with their geo-political backgrounds. Limón’s queer and Latino heritage is put into dialogue with Hawkins’ straight and European heritage to examine how their embodied social histories worked co-constitutively with their training regimes and performance strategies to produce influential stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
Weitere Infos & Material
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
Chapter One Recovering Hawkins
Chapter Two Limón’s biblical dances
Images
Chapter Three Plains Daybreak
Chapter Four Brown in black and white: José Limón dances The Emperor Jones
Index