Table of Contents

Foreword: Geneaology and Event in the Work of Mark Franko, by Juan Ignacio Vallejos
Preface
Introduction: The Politics of Expression
1. The Invention of Modern Dance
2. Bodies of Radical Will
3. Emotivist Movement and Histories of Modernism: The Case of Martha Graham
4. Expressivism and Chance Procedure: The Future of an Emotion
5. Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath
Appendix: Left-Wing Dance Theory: Articles on Dance from New Theatre, New Masses, and Daily Worker
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mark Franko is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at Temple University. He is author of The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar: Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation and founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series.

Reviews

"Almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." —Signs "[An] important step . . . in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and between present and past." —Theatre Journal "This complex and important book needs to be read by anyone interested in dance history or the cultural politics of dance." —Dance Theatre Journal "Mark Franko's Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics is challenging, groundbreaking, insightful, and . . . an important contribution to the field of dance scholarship." —Dance Research Journal