Race, Immigration, and the Cold War Politics of Contemporary American Dance

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An interdisciplinary graduate seminar that examines how racism, immigration, imagination, and geopolitics have shaped perceptions of the dancing body in both classical and contemporary dance. Dance Studies course that examines how racism in the United States has shaped and been shaped by the American stage. In an era of overt patriotism and nation-building, we study how the dancers and choreographers themselves contributed to the racialization bodies in motion.