Dance For Export

Author : Naima Prevots
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573361
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance for Export written by Naima Prevots and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book Dance for Export written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455761
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Cultures written by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Export Expansion Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Noonan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807837164
Total Pages : 441 pages
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Download or read book The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess written by Ellen Noonan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190226315
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancers as Diplomats written by Clare Croft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : University of Western Sydney. Department of Marketing
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ISBN 13 : 9781863412865
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come Dancing Or Strictly Ballroom? written by University of Western Sydney. Department of Marketing and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Author : Hannah Kosstrin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199396957
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Honest Bodies written by Hannah Kosstrin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book illuminates Sokolow's statements for workers' rights, anti-racism, and the human condition through her choreography for social change alongside her dancing and teaching for Martha Graham. Tracing a catalog of dances with her companies Dance Unit, La Paloma Azul, Lyric Theatre, and Anna Sokolow Dance Company, along with presenters and companies the Negro Cultural Committee, New York State Committee for the Communist Party, Federal Theatre Project, Nuevo Grupo Mexicano de Clásicas y Modernas, and Inbal Dance Theater, this book highlights Sokolow's work in conjunction with developments in ethnic definitions, diaspora, and nationalism in the US, Mexico, and Israel.

Author : IBP, Inc
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 143871033X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costa Rica Export-Import, Trade and Business Directory Volume 1 Strategic Information and Contacts written by IBP, Inc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica Export-Import Trade and Business Directory