Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance

Contents

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction.
• 1. Choreographing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity
• 2. 'Savage' Dancer: Tout Paris Goes to See Josephine Baker
• 3. The Chorus Line and the Efficiency Engineers
• 4. Totalitarianism and the Mass Ornament
• 5. Dancing Across the Atlantic
• 6. American Moderns
• 7. Primitivism, Modernism and the Ritual in the Works of Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.