The dance rounds during the Cold War: dancing for peace?
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French
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10.4000/ilcea.1402>
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10.4000/ilcea.1402>
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Abstract
This paper seeks to analyse classical dance touring during the cold war, during the 1950’s. Dance had also been politically instrumentalized by the two blocs, as well as theatre, music, mime or circus. Here, the study of the well-known discourse of “peace”, making dance a priviliged art to stop the conflict and bring serenity back between the camps, reveals an outdated and mechanical rhetoric, used by political and artistic actors.