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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: Theories and Practices
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  • 978-0-472-07455-6 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12694-1 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05455-8 (paper)
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  • Asian Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • Dance
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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 8.1. On a stage eighteen meters wide and surrounded by pink cherry blossoms, thirty-six female dancers in traditional costume stand in rows spreading out their hands.

Miyako Odori, 2019

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Fig, 8.1. Miyako Odori in 2019. Its group dance in identical costumes has basically followed the same style since its first performance in 1872. Photo by Hayashi Photo provided by Gion Kobu Kabukai. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.15.

Figure 8.2. Seven bobbed haired girls dance, holding Japanese flags, with white sashes printed “Beloved Horse Girls Group of Gion” worn diagonally across the shoulders.

Child Dancers in Miyako Odori, 1939

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Fig, 8.2. Child dancers in the costume modeled after the uniform of the Kokubō fujin-kai, Japan’s National Defense Women’s Association. Nisshi-shinkō 日支親交” or “Friendship between Japan and China” from 1939 Miyako Odori. Courtesy Gion Kobu Kabukai and Kyomai Inoue-ryu. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.16.


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Kyoto Tourism Site

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Miyako Odori Official Site

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Records of “Aiba Shingunka” and “Kōa Ondo” in the Historical Record Collection at the National Diet Library

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