Overview

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History collects essential essays by Susan Manning, one of the founders of critical dance studies, recounting her career writing and rewriting the history of modern dance. Three sets of keywords—gender and sexuality, whiteness and Blackness, nationality and globalization—illuminate modern dance histories from multiple angles, coming together in varied combinations, shifting positions from foreground to background. Among the many artists discussed are Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ted Shawn, Helen Tamiris, Katherine Dunham, José Limón, Pina Bausch, Reggie Wilson, and Nelisiwe Xaba. Calling for a comparative and transnational historiography, Manning ends with an extended case study of Mary Wigman’s multidimensional exchange with artists from Indonesia, India, China, Korea, and Japan. Like the artists at the center of her research, Manning’s writing dances on the fault lines of history. Her introduction and annotations to the essays reflect on how and why these keywords became central to her research, revealing the autobiographical resonances of her scholarship as she confronts the cultural politics of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Author:   Susan Manning
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780472074372

ISBN 10:   0472074377
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   28 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword I. Writing and Rewriting Modern Dance History II. Keywords: Gender and Sexuality 1. The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze 2. Looking from a Different Place 3. Choreographing the Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence 4. Archives in Collision: Excursus on Method III. Keywords: Whiteness and Blackness 5. Black Voices, White Bodies: Tamiris’ How Long, Brethren? 6. Watching Dunham’s Dances 1937-1945 7. Reggie Wilson and the Making of Moses(es) 8. Cross-Viewing in Berlin and Chicago: Nelisiwe Xaba’s Fremde Tänze IV. Keywords: Nationality and Globalization 9. An American Perspective on Tanztheater 10. Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic 11. Nation and World in Modern Dance 12. Mary Wigman and Asia: Between Cultural Appropriation and Transnational Encounter Bibliography

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""[T]his collection of essays by one of the genre's founders proves that modern dance is a subject of rich cultural meaning, thanks to her probing analyses.""-- ""Shannon Titas, Library Journal""

Author Information

Susan Manning is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.

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