Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

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Rebecca Rossen (Assistant Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

Dancing Jewish

Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

Rebecca Rossen (Assistant Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

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Oxford University Press Inc
03 May 2014

Contemporary dance; Jewish studies

"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. Dancing Jewish 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. 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 - Dancing Jewish 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."

By: Rebecca Rossen (Assistant Professor Department of Theater and Dance Assistant Professor Department of Theater and Dance University of Texas at Austin Austin TX)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199791767
ISBN 10: 0199791767
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 May 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Prelude: Make Me a Jewish Dance Act I: Dancing the Jew Chapter 1: The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Hasidic Drag Chapter 2: Biblical Heroines and Anti-Heroines Chapter 3: The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick Entr'acte: Make Me a Jewish Dance Act II: Dancing Jewish Chapter 4: Dancing Folk: Jewish Memory and Amnesia Chapter 5: Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict Conclusion: Dancing Jewish, Dancing American Curtain Call: Dance Me My Jewish Dance Bibliography Index

Rebecca Rossen, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, The University of Texas at Austin

Reviews for Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

Rossen's deft interweaving of beautifully-written movement descriptions with rigorous scholarship produces a multifaceted analysis of the role of Jewish identity within the development of modern and postmodern dance. Dancing Jewish is an important original contribution to dance studies. Ann Cooper Albright, author of Engaging Bodies: the Politics and Poetics of Corporeality Rebecca Rossen's highly readable Dancing Jewish is a major contribution to both Jewish studies and dance/performance studies. Drawing on a rich mix of archival work, interviews with performers, and the author's personal experience as a dancer and choreographer, the book is a shining example of how performance-centered research can take us places that scholarship could not otherwise reach. Henry Bial, University of Kansas, author of Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen