Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

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.


Author: Rebecca Rossen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/03/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780199791774

About the Author

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

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