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Ellen Graff, Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New YorkCity, 1928–1942. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xi + 248 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2001
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The intersection of culture and politics has long been of interest to historians, but, until now, few have examined the ways in which modern dance expressed a radical political vision, and few have done this as well as Ellen Graff has in this study. Indeed, the central theme in Stepping Left is the moment when dance and politics joined together in what Graff terms a “revolutionary dance movement.” This moment proved to be “fleeting,” however, and it was quickly forgotten as modern dance became institutionalized (177).
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