Moving through Conflict

Taylor & Francis

Moving through ConflictDance and Politcs in Israel\nAuthor(s): Dina Roginsky, Henia Rottenberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032084480, 978-1032084480\nSynopsis\nMoving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel is a pioneering project in examining the IsraeliPalestinian conflict through dance. It proposes a research framework for study of the social, cultural, aesthetic and political dynamics between Jews and Arabs as reflected in dance from late 19th-century Palestine to present-day Israel. \n\nDrawing on multiple disciplines, this book examines a variety of social and theatrical venues (communities, dance groups, evening classes and staged performances), dance genres (folk dancing, social dancing and theatrical dancing) and different cultural identities (Israeli, Palestinian and American). Underlying this work is a fundamental question: can the body and dance operate as nonverbal autonomous agents to m.