"This book is a tour de force, a grand jeté, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture."
At some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told “don’t act, dear; just dance.” The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps—but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Don't Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture | Catherine Gunther Kodat.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
