Description: Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection.
Review Quotes: "Incisive and original, Dancing on Violent Ground roots choreographic meaning in the politics of space. Considering questions of imperialism, racism, land seizure, dispossession, and labor, Stanger shows how a wide range of European and American concert dance idioms obscure the exploitative histories of the spaces--theatrical, urban, national, and geopolitical--in which they occur. Well-written, thoughtfully structured, and deftly argued, Dancing on Violent Ground offers an important contribution to dance studies and critical geography." --Janet O'Shea, author of Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training