Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
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Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
（Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies）（Routledge focus）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, Jose Limon (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).
Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limon and Hawkins' work during a time when modern dance was forming new relationships to academic and governmental institutions, mainstream markets, and notions of embodiment. The pre-war expressionist tradition championed by Limon and Hawkins' mentors faced multiple challenges as ballet and Broadway complicated the tenets of modernism and emerging modern dance choreographers faced an increasingly conservative post-war culture framed by the Cold War and Red Scare. By bringing the work of Limon and Hawkins together in one volume, Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins accesses two distinct approaches to training and performance that proved highly influential in creating post-war dialogues on race, gender, and embodiment.
This book approaches Limon and Hawkins' training regimes and performing strategies as social practices symbiotically entwined with their geo-political backgrounds. Limon's queer and Latino heritage is put into dialogue with Hawkins' straight and European heritage to examine how their embodied social histories worked co-constitutively with their training regimes and performance strategies to produce influential stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Dances of Jose Limon and Erick Hawkins
Chapter One Recovering Hawkins
Chapter Two Limon's biblical dances
Images
Chapter Three Plains Daybreak
Chapter Four Brown in black and white: Jose Limon dances The Emperor Jones
Index
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