How To Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America

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A&T. See North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College Abraham Lincoln Houses, 113 abstract expressionism, 151, 165, 258n2, 274n26 Acheson, Dean, 43 Actors Studio, 110 advertisements, postwar, 57–60 Against Interpretation (Sontag), 257n15 Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 99 African Academy of Arts and Research, 120 African Ceremonial (Primus), 119, 125–28 African ceremonial practices, 117–18, 130–31, 137–42, 144–45, 147–49; reconstruction of, 118–19, 120, 123–26, 141, 145, 271n18 Africa, Primus’ trip to, 118–19, 125, 136–42 agape, 246–47, 276n5, 281n16 Ailey, Alvin, 1–6, 44–45, 196, 209, 257n1, 280n31 Ailey, Alvin, works of: Revelations, 1–6, 196, 257n1 Alhen, Robert, 183–84, 275n36 American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 134 American Document (Graham), 94, 122 American National Theater and Academy (ANTA), 9, 20–21, 35, 45–49, 52, 230, 262n26 Amsterdam Houses, 113 Anderson, Terry, 256 ANTA. See American National Theater and Academy Antic Meet (Cunningham), 173–75, 190, 274n30, 275n31 anticommunism, 16–21, 42–50, 56, 97, 115, 260n13, 261n21 antidemocratic subversion, 54, 85, 189 antifascist movements, 132 anti-imperialism, 132–33 antitotalitarianism. See anticommunism Appalachian Spring (Graham), 71, 85, 94, 263n1, 263n10, 264n14, 266n10, 272n12; and alignment of traditional gender roles, 23–24, 57, 62–66, 69–71; close reading of, 57–66; critical accounts of, 22–24, 37–40 Appeal to the World: A Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of Citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and An Appeal to the United Nations for Redress (NAACP), 135, 202 Armour, Toby, 176, 273n22 art and everyday life, 86–87, 96, 116–17, 154, 161, 175, 183, 197, 207–8, 211, 216, 239, 251 atomic bomb, 23, 26, 33, 262n31 atomized body, the, 173 Atwood, William, 73–74, 265n26 Austin, J. L., 7, 257n4 authenticity (in modern dance), 46–47, 118, 122–29, 140, 147, 149, 156, 246 Axis nations, 23, 93 baby boom, 22, 54, 64 Badger, John Robert, 132 Baker, Houston, 198, 204 Baker, Josephine, 121 Balanchine, George, 17, 158, 273n16, 273n23 Balcom, Lois, 95, 126, 141 Baldwin, James, 209 Baltimore Afro-American, 133 Banton, Michael, 188, 275n40 Baraka, Amiri, 209, 223–24 Bartlett, K. S., 205 basic vs. primitive, dance described as, 12, 27–28, 125–27, 141, 145, 148–49, 259n11, 271n18 Bausch, Pina, 105 Beatty, Talley, 17, 44, 194–95, 199, 204–10, 212– 16, 224, 229, 254, 278n16 Beatty, Talley, works of: Mourner’s Bench, 199, 204–7, 212, 215–16, 221, 224–25; Southern Landscape, 205–8 Beiswanger, George, 115, 262n26 Belasco Theater, 129 Belefonte, Harry, 225 Bell, Daniel, 97–101, 115 belonging: foundness and its effects on, 158; and gender, 70, 73; and modern dance, 87–88, 94, 230, 272n15; Pearl Primus finds, 140, 149; societal pressures related to, 54–55, 64, 98– 101, 189, 263n4 . 313 . Index index . 314 Bennett, L. Roy, 194 Best Years of Our Lives, The (Wyler), 64 Bibb, Leon, 194, 218, 280n32 Big Three Unity Rally, 135, 200 black aesthetics, 198–99, 216, 279nn22 and 27 Black Boy (Wright), 211 black civil rights. See civil rights black male body, empowerment/capacity of the, 194–95, 197–98, 205, 208, 216, 218, 221–22 Black Mountain College, 164, 273n15 Black Popular Front, 201 blacksubjectivity,140–41,147–49,210,215–16,224 Blair, Ezell, 4, 252 Blecher, Miriam, 91 blues aesthetic, 17, 195, 198–99, 209–13, 229 Blues People (Baraka), 223, 278n18 Boas, Franz, 130 Book of Changes. See I-Ching Borstelmann, Thomas, 130–35 Boston Globe, 205 Borzoi Book of Modern Dance, The (Lloyd), 28, 56 Botticelli, 89 boycotts, as social action, 4, 196–203, 215, 251, 276n4, 279n20, 279n27 Braden, Anne, 189, 246 Brandeis University’s Festival of Creative Arts, 161, 273n16 Brecht, Bertolt, 192, 195, 230, 274n29, 281n7 Broadway, 24, 96, 129 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 200 Buddhism, 156–57, 272nn6–7 Burt, Ramsay, 71, 80–81, 264n23, 281n4 Butler, Judith, 7–8, 264n19, 274n28 CAA. See Council on African Affairs Café Society, 47, 147, 262n35, 270n13 Cage, John: artistic process of, 154–59, 164–65, 238, 272n9, 274n26, 281n12; compositions of, 273n18, 274n30; and the Dance Advisory Panel, 48, 273n16; and the efficacy of art, 11–12; life of, 272n11; work with Merce Cunningham , 162, 271n3, 272n13, 273n24; and Zen Buddhism, 272nn6–8 Cage, Xenia Kashevaroff, 158, 272n11 Camera Three, 194–96 Campaign of Truth, 34 Campbell, Joseph, 159, 263n2 canonical literary texts. See modern dance: use of narrative constructs Cárdenas, Lázaro, 93...