ISBN:
9780472904488
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 303 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
792.8/2092
Keywords:
Itō, Michio
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Choreographers Biography 20th century
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Dancers Biography 20th century
;
Dance Political aspects
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Dance Social aspects
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Modern dance
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Chorégraphes - Japon - 20e siècle - Biographies
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Danseurs - Japon - 20e siècle - Biographies
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Danse - Aspect social - Japon
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Danse - Japon - 20e siècle
;
Danse - Aspect politique - Japon
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PERFORMING ARTS / General
Abstract:
Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years in the Japanese internment camps, later repatriating to Japan, where he contributed to imperial war efforts by creating propaganda performances and performing revues for the occupying Allied Forces in Tokyo. Throughout, Ito continually invented stories of voyages made, artists befriended, performances seen, and political activities carried out-stories later dismissed as false. Fantasies of Ito Michio argues that these invented stories, unrealized projects, and questionable political affiliations are as fundamental to Ito's career as his "real" activities, helping us understand how he sustained himself across experiences of racialization, imperialism, war, and internment. Tara Rodman reveals a narrative of Ito's life that foregrounds the fabricated and overlooked to highlight his involvement with Japanese artists, such as Yamada Kosaku and Ishii Baku, and global modernist movements. Rodman offers "fantasy" as a rubric for understanding how individuals such as Ito sustain themselves in periods of violent disruption and as a scholarly methodology for engaging the past
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Japanese Exemplarity and Exceptionalism: Germany, 1912-1914 -- 2. Modernist Mythologizing: London, 1914-1916 -- 3. Japoniste Collections: New York, 1916-1929 -- 4. Japanese America and Fantasies of Integration: California, 1929-1941 -- 5. Cosmopolitanism, Masculinity, and National Embodiment in the Borderless Empire: Japan, 1931 -- Mexico, 1934 -- Japan, 1939-1940 -- Japan, 1940-1941 -- 6. Pan-Asianism between Internment and Propaganda: The Asia-Pacific War, 1941-1945
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Being Watched: Making New Bodies for a New Japan, 1945-1955 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index
