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Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 2011 (T211)
- pp. 40-49
- Article
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Jewish choreographers have consistently created dances that embody the shifting role of Israel in American Jewish life. Countering the Zionism of mid-century dances about Israel, contemporary Jewish American choreographers such as Liz Lerman and Kristen Smiarowski actively question the ideology of unconditional support, deftly grapple with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and situate performance as an opportunity for activism, inquiry, and debate.