
A Revolution in Movement
Dancers, Painters, and the Image of Modern Mexico
K. Mitchell Snow(Author)
University Press of Florida
Published on 30. September 2020
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-0-8130-6655-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Revolution in Movement is the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico's postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance-the emulation of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in the 1920s, the adoption of U.S.-style modern dance in the 1940s, and the creation of ballet-inspired folk dance in the 1960s.Snow describes the appearances in Mexico by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Spanish concert dancer Tortola Valencia, who helped motivated Mexico to express its own national identity through dance. He discusses the work of muralists and other visual artists in tandem with Mexico's theatrical dance world, including Diego Rivera's collaborations with ballet composer Carlos Chavez; Carlos Merida's leadership of the National School of Dance; Jose Clemente Orozco's involvement in the creation of the Ballet de la Ciudad de Mexico; and Miguel Covarrubias, who led the "golden age" of Mexican modern dance. Snow draws from a rich trove of historical newspaper accounts and other contemporary documents to show how these collaborations produced an image of modern Mexico that would prove popular both locally and internationally and continues to endure today.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
751 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-6655-4 (9780813066554)
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Person
K. Mitchell Snow, an independent scholar and arts writer based in Washington, D.C., is the author of Movimiento, ritmo y musica: Una biografia de Gloria Contreras.