Dance for Export - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance for Export write by Naima Prevots. This book was released on 2012-12-20. Dance for Export available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhower inaugurated a program of cultural exchange that sent American dancers and other artists to political "hot spots" overseas. This peacetime gambit by a warrior hero was a resounding success. Among the artists chosen for international duty were José Limón, who led his company on the first government-sponsored tour of South America; Martha Graham, whose famed ensemble crisscrossed southeast Asia; Alvin Ailey, whose company brought audiences to their feet throughout the South Pacific; and George Balanchine, whose New York City Ballet crowned its triumphant visits to Western Europe and Japan with an epoch-making tour of the Soviet Union in 1962. The success of Eisenhower's program of cultural export led directly to the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Washington's Kennedy Center. Naima Prevots draws on an array of previously unexamined sources, including formerly classified State Department documents, congressional committee hearings, and the minutes of the Dance Panel, to reveal the inner workings of "Eisenhower's Program," the complex set of political, fiscal, and artistic interests that shaped it, and the ever-uneasy relationship between government and the arts in the US. CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Foner.
Dance for Export
Dance for Export - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance for Export write by . This book was released on 2001. Dance for Export available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dancing Cultures
Dancing Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing Cultures write by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Dancing Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.
Dancers as Diplomats
Dancers as Diplomats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancers as Diplomats write by Clare Croft. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Dancers as Diplomats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections. Based on more than seventy interviews with dancers who traveled on the tours, the book looks at a wide range of American dance companies, among them New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, ODC/Dance, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and the Trey McIntyre Project, among others. During the Cold War, companies danced everywhere from the Soviet Union to Vietnam, just months before the US abandoned Saigon. In the post 9/11 era, dance companies traveled to Asia and Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Come Dancing Or Strictly Ballroom?
Come Dancing Or Strictly Ballroom? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Come Dancing Or Strictly Ballroom? write by University of Western Sydney. Department of Marketing. This book was released on 1996. Come Dancing Or Strictly Ballroom? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
