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Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia

Katherine Mezur and Emily Wilcox, Editors 2020
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In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts.

Through the lens of "corporeal politics"—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

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  • Studies in Dance History series
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  • 978-0-472-12694-1 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05455-8 (paper)
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  • Dance
  • Asian Studies
  • Theater and Performance
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and East Asian Names
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Contested Genealogies
    • Chapter 1. Sexuality, Status, and the Female Dancer
    • Chapter 2. Mei Lanfang and Modern Dance
    • Chapter 3. The Conflicted Monk
  • Part 2: Decolonizing Migration
    • Chapter 4. Murayama Tomoyoshi and Dance of Modern Times
    • Chapter 5. Korean Dance Beyond Koreanness
    • Chapter 6. Diasporic Moves
    • Chapter 7. Choreographing Neoliberal Marginalization
  • Part 3: Militarization and Empire
    • Chapter 8. Masking Japanese Militarism as a Dream of Sino-Japanese Friendship
    • Chapter 9. Imagined Choreographies
    • Chapter 10. Exorcism and Reclamation
  • Part 4: Socialist Aesthetics
    • Chapter 11. Choe Seung-hui Between Classical and Folk
    • Chapter 12. The Dilemma of Chinese Classical Dance
    • Chapter 13. Negotiating Chinese Identity through a Double-Minority Voice and the Female Dancing Body
  • Part 5: Collective Technologies
    • Chapter 14. Cracking History’s Codes in Crocodile Time
    • Chapter 15. Fans, Sashes, and Jesus
    • Chapter 16. Choreographing Digital Performance in Twenty-First-Century Taiwan
    • Coda
  • Contributors
  • Index

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Figure 4.1. Murayama Tomoyoshi in bobbed hair and a dress stands barefoot and barelegged, arms spread like eagle wings, leaning and staring forward in front of a stone fireplace.

Murayama Tomoyoshi at Jiyu Gakuen, 1923

From Chapter 4

Fig. 4.1. Murayama Tomoyoshi dancing at Jiyū Gakuen in 1923. Source: Murayama Tomoyoshi: Get All of Me Seething exhibition catalogue, 2012. Photo no. III-134, p. 117. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.7.

Figure 4.2. Murayama in bobbed hair, a dress, and high heels, twists his body and steps forward in a deep knee bend. Okada crouches, feet turned out, twisting torso bent forward.

Murayama Tomoyoshi and Okada Tatsuo at Chieruteru no kai, 1924

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Fig. 4.2. Murayama Tomoyoshi and Okada Tatsuo dancing at Chieruteru no kai in 1924. Source: Murayama Tomoyoshi: Get All of Me Seething exhibition catalogue, 2012. Photo no. III-137, p. 119. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.8.

Figure 6.1. Dai Ailian poses on a rock ledge looking up toward the sky. Her arms are outstretched, her legs lunging, and she wears a costume like the flag of the Republic of China.

Dai Ailian in Guerilla March, 1940

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Fig. 6.1. Dai Ailian in Hong Kong performing a dance pose from her solo dance Guerilla March. South China Morning Post, October 16, 1940. Photographer unknown. Used with permission of South China Morning Post. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.mpub.11521701.cmp.11.

Figure 9.1. Itō sits, arm resting against chair back, face turned out. His hair is white, and his face wears an expression of calm interest, with a hint of a smile.

Michio Itō, 1938

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Fig, 9.1. Michio Itō, October 1938, California. Photo by Johan Hagemeyer, from the Johan Hagemeyer photograph collection, BANC PIC 1964.063 Ito, Michio :005—PIC, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.17.

Figure 9.2. Men at right stretch arms as if shooting arrows, confront women on left in poses of dismay. Below, a male dancer holds aloft a woman draped in a back-bend over his head.

Prince Igor at Hollywood Bowl

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Fig. 9.2. Prince Igor at Hollywood Bowl. Los Angeles Evening Herald, August 14, 1930. Artist and photographer unknown. Courtesy Los Angeles Philharmonic Archive. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.18.


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Encyclopedia entry “Murayama, Tomoyoshi (1901–1977)” by Diane Wei Lewis in Routledge Enclyclopedia of Modernism

From Chapter 4


Open external resource at https://www.kuni-dance.jp

Homepage of the Kuni Institute of Creative Dance (in Japanese)

From Chapter 5


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TV Program: Finding Your Roots - Fred Armisen on his grandfather Park Yeong-in

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News Report (USA Today) - Fred Armisen

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Review of the Book Masami Kuni (Tokyo: Ronsosha, 1998) (in Japanese)

From Chapter 5


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Web Magazine Article about Park Yeong-in, part 1 (in Korean)

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Web Magazine Article about Park Yeong-in, part 2 (in Korean)

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A website run by Itō’s granddaughter

From Chapter 9


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A documentary about Itō available online, produced by Repertory Dance Theatre.

From Chapter 9


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Trailer for another film, by the Los Angeles Dance Foundation.

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