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Dance and Politics

This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, nationalism, activism, terrorism, human rights, political ideologies and cultural policy. This cutting-edge book features previously unpublished work by leading scholars of dance, theatre, politics and management, alongside renowned contemporary choreographers who propose innovative ways of looking at twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance.

Topics covered range across the political spectrum: from dance tendencies under fascism to the use of choreography for revolutionary socialist ends, and from the capacity of dance to reflect the modern market economy to its function in campaigns for peace and justice.

My own essay in the collection analyses contemporary choreographic responses to 1960s and 1970s left-wing terrorism in Germany and the US, in doing so revealing concerns and dance works that have previously received little academic attention. I also contributed a comprehensive introduction to the book which positions to the relations between dance and politics.