Dancing on the Fault Lines of History – Selected Essays Manning Hardback

Dancing on the Fault Lines of HistorySelected Essays\nAuthor(s): Susan Manning\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472074372, 978-0472074372\nSynopsis\nDancing 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 keywordsgender and sexuality, whiteness and Blackness, nationality and globalizationilluminate 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, Jos Limn, Pina Bausch, Reggie Wilson, and Nelisiwe Xaba. Calling for a comparative and transnational historiography, Manning ends with an extended case study of Mary Wigmans multidimensio.