Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange - Paperback

by Clare Croft (Author)

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. In the early decades of the Cold War and the twenty-first century, American dancers toured the globe on tours sponsored by the US State Department. Dancers as Diplomats tells the story of how these tours shaped and some times re-imagined ideas of the United States in unexpected, often sensational circumstances-pirouetting in Moscow as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded and dancing in Burma shortly before the country held its first democratic elections.

Author Biography

Clare Croft is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan.