Dance and Politics

Dana Mills is College Lecturer in Politics at Hertford College, University of Oxford. In 2016-17 she was Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University and Visiting Scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, New York. Alongside her academic interests she is a dancer and a political activist. -- .

Introduction
1 Moving beyond boundaries: writing on the body
2 'I dreamed of a different dance': Isadora Duncan's danced revolution
3 'The body says what words cannot': Martha Graham, dance and politics
4 'I want to tell them how I feel and how black people feel': Gumboots dance in South Africa
5 Dancing the ruptured body: One Billion Rising, dance and gendered violence
6 Dancing human rights
Conclusions: the dancer of the future dancing radical hope
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