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Honest Bodies Hannah Kosstrin (Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Reed College)

Honest Bodies By Hannah Kosstrin (Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Reed College)

Summary

Using new archival discoveries and interviews, Honest Bodies illustrates how Anna Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism internationally from the 1930s to the 1960s. Author Hannah Kosstrin argues that Sokolow's dances embodied the relationship between Communist ideals and Jewish culture.

Honest Bodies Summary

Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow by Hannah Kosstrin (Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Reed College)

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 Clasicas 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.

Honest Bodies Reviews

Kosstrin uses interdisciplinary methodologies from dance studies and history to analyze movement and archival materials ... The compelling passages that detail Sokolow's performances support the larger argument that her choreography had a political punch. * Elizabeth Schwall, Latin American Research Review *
A refreshing and groundbreaking analysis of Anna Sokolows choreographic work from a variety of perspectives. * Studies in Theatre and Performance *

About Hannah Kosstrin (Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Reed College)

Hannah Kosstrin researches Jewishness, gender, and movement analysis in modern and contemporary dance. At The Ohio State University, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance and is affiliated with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface: Honest Bodies Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Dances of All Nations: Choreographing Communism 2. Revolutionary Exile in Postrevolutionary Mexico City: Jewishness and Mexican Modernism 3. The Wandering Frog that Did Not Travel Well: Jewishness, Mexicanidad, and Ethnic Dance 4. White Rooms, Red Scare: Sokolow Defines America 5. Modernist Forms in a Jewish State Epilogue: No Fists in the Air: Anna Sokolow and the Cold War Selected Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9780199396931
9780199396931
0199396930
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow by Hannah Kosstrin (Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Visiting Assitant Professor of Dance, Reed College)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
20170914
280
Winner of Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Jews and the Arts Category, Association for Jewish Studies.
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