 Social choreography: ideology as performance in dance and everyday movement.
Author: Hewitt, Andrew Published: 2005 Through the concept of 'social choreography' Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as a metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organisation. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract from of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics. |
