Choreographic Politics

The first in-depth analysis of state-sponsored, professional dance ensembles.Winner of the Congress on Research in Dance's (CORD) Outstanding Publication Award (2003)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 ...