Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power

by Anthony Shay

Book Overview

The first in-depth analysis of state-sponsored, professional dance ensembles. Over the past fifty years national dance companies from Turkey, Egypt, Mexico, Greece, the former USSR and Croatia have dominated concert stages throughout the world. Anthony Shay makes coherent sense of these national programs, which have previously received scant academic attention. Specifically, he looks at the ways through which these companies spread political, ethnic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565210
• ISBN13: 9780819565211
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.5"