Dancing on the Fault Lines of History

Susan Manning is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.

• AcknowledgmentsForewordI. Writing and Rewriting Modern Dance HistoryII. Keywords: Gender and Sexuality 1. The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze2. Looking from a Different Place3. Choreographing the Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence4. Archives in Collision: Excursus on MethodIII. Keywords: Whiteness and Blackness 5. Black Voices, White Bodies: Tamiris’ How Long, Brethren?6. Watching Dunham’s Dances 1937-19457. Reggie Wilson and the Making of Moses(es)8. Cross-Viewing in Berlin and Chicago: Nelisiwe Xaba’s Fremde TänzeIV. Keywords: Nationality and Globalization 9. An American Perspective on Tanztheater10. Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic11. Nation and World in Modern Dance12. Mary Wigman and Asia: Between Cultural Appropriation and Transnational EncounterBibliography

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History brings together into a single volume some of Susan Manning's most influential essays. Spanning the full range of her career to date, this volume documents significant transitions in dance history scholarship and Manning's interventions into the field through feminist historiography, critical race studies, and transnational studies. This volume maps some of the most significant transformations in the intellectual history of our discipline and Manning's participation in their advancement. Insightful and generative, the volume dances between national and transnational histories with methodological and theoretical creativity and clarity. “Dancing on the Fault Lines of History brings together into a single volume some of Susan Manning’s most influential essays. Spanning the full range of her career to date, this volume documents significant transitions in dance history scholarship and Manning’s interventions into the field through feminist historiography, critical race studies, and transnational studies. This volume maps some of the most significant transformations in the intellectual history of our discipline and Manning’s participation in their advancement. Insightful and generative, the volume dances between national and transnational histories with methodological and theoretical creativity and clarity. 12970898 12970911 11411932 9780472074372 Blurb Review Quote Shannon Titas, Library Journal NULL NULL [T]his collection of essays by one of the genre's founders proves that modern dance is a subject of rich cultural meaning, thanks to her probing analyses."