Dancing on the Third Coast, Volume 2
Contemporary Cultures
A multifaceted inquiry that repositions Chicago as central to contemporary dance
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Precipitated by an influx of federal and corporate granting programs, the 1960s and 1970s are often referred to as the U.S. dance boom, and Chicago was no exception. New nonprofits emerged on the South and North sides, as choreographers experimented with the fusion aesthetics innovated by their predecessors and as new immigrants and Black subcultures fashioned new forms of social dance. The second volume of Dancing on the Third Coast explores the inevitable collisions of artistic identity with cultural infrastructure, as nonprofit institutions codified aesthetic preferences and social practices from the 1960s to the present.Contributors write from their own experiences of Chicago dance. Informed by their perspectives as performers and dancemakers, critics and dramaturges, educators and ethnographers, their essays invite readers to join the ongoing work of telling the myriad stories of Chicago dance.
Contributors: Frances R. Aparicio, Maggie Bridger, Ellen Chenoweth, Sydney Erlikh, Joanna Furnans, Wills Glasspiegel, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood, J’Sun Howard, Wenke (Coco) Huang, Maggie Kast, Michael J. Kramer, Mario LaMothe, Michael Landez, Lizzie Leopold, Kelsa “K-Soul” Rieger-Haywood, Rebecca Rossen, Micah Salkind, Roell Schmidt, Elizabeth Schwall, Nora Sharp, Shayna M. Silverstein, Lauren Warnecke, Zachary Whittenburg, Tara Aisha Willis
* Publication of this book was supported by a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.
About the Author
Lizzie Leopold is an assistant professor of Arts Administration & Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and previously served as Executive Director of the Dance Studies Association. Susan Manning is Bergen Evans Professor Emerita at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Dancing on the Fault Lines of History: Selected Essays.Reviews
“Dancing on the Third Coast is an invaluable resource for American, dance, performance, and urban studies scholars interested in the ways Chicago shapes dance and dance history and dance shapes Chicago. Detailing an impressive and diverse range of institutions, neighborhoods, people, and forms, these two volumes bring new insights into familiar sites and famous figures and attend to underexamined ones with rigor and originality.”—Judith Hamera, author of Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
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