{"id":82,"date":"2016-10-11T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:51:16","slug":"dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><strong>To read Stanley Burnshaw&#8217;s\u00a0entire essay in the December 1935\u00a0<em>New Masses<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Pub\/NewMasses-1935dec10-00027?View=PDF\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Stanley Burnshaw was one of two writers (the other was Owen Burke) who reported on modern dance for <i>New Masses<\/i>. Their reviews offered insights that paralleled the way visual art was presented throughout the journal\u2019s history. In this 1935 essay, Burnshaw highlighted Martha Graham\u2019s Imperial Gesture for its use of a singular figure to convey ideas of imperialist arrogance. He presented Graham\u2019s choreography as an exploration of Marxist ideas of identity construction in imperialist society. Through the lens of this overarching ideology, Graham\u2019s sequence of movements addressed imperialist gluttony, a resulting upheaval for all things weaker, followed by imperialism\u2019s inevitable collapse. Graham, along with other prominent figures in the dance world, assimilated leftist social concerns into their medium through a creative process similar to that of other politically engaged art forms. Burnshaw encouraged audiences to embrace revolutionary dance performances which, for him, visually demonstrated radical sentiment through clean, forceful movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Colin Buist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read Stanley Burnshaw&#8217;s\u00a0entire essay in the December 1935\u00a0New Masses, click here. Stanley Burnshaw was one of two writers (the other was Owen Burke) who reported on modern dance for New Masses. Their reviews offered insights that paralleled the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/dance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}