Articulations: Dancing Across Modernities
by Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature
Articulations: Dancing Across Modernities, by Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, explores the place of dance as image and practice in the early twentieth century. Tracing the ways in which painters, poets, filmmakers, and critics turned to dance and the dancer as models for connecting times and places, it emphasizes that the dancer was herself not just a muse, but a creative practitioner, student, and collector. She immersed herself in source materials, Clayton argues, collecting artifacts and ideas on tour, engaging in transregional and interdisciplinary dialogues, and writing her own histories of the artform through essays, interviews, and choreographies. A media-rich project that draws upon a wide array of artifacts including books, press clippings, films, snapshots, artworks, poems, maps, and anecdotes, this digital publication will incorporate a wealth of material to help readers travel with dancers across regions, stages, texts, and languages.
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