Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance, (Paperback)

While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. <em>Dancing Jewish</em> delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. <p>A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - <em>Dancing Jewish</em> offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart.</p>

• Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance, (Paperback)
• Author: Assistant Professor Department of Theater and Dance Rebecca Rossen
• ISBN: 9780199791774
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2014-06-03
• Page Count: 336