Clare Croft
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Croft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Croft |
| SIGNATURE | CROFT C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Criticism
Lesbian Echoes in Activism and Writing
Living a feminist life Sara Ahmed
Queer Dance
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scho…
Expressing Life Through Loss
This chapter examines the relationship between blackness, queer vulnerability, and the mechanics of movement and dance. It uses anecdotes to make an argument for downward movement and concaveness as movement techniques, responses to the physical threats intrinsic to black ontology. It examines the relationship between those movements and shapes in the black body to an emergent style of performance called “queer dance.” This relationship might be …
A Provocation Towards Moving
Research Article| June 01 2017 a provocation towards moving Clare Croft; Clare Croft Clare Croft is a dance historian, theorist, and sometimes dramaturg. She is the editor of Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford 2017) and the author of Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange (Oxford 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Efren Cruz Cortez; Efren Cruz Cortez Efrén Cruz Cortez studies large a…
Feminist Dance Criticism and Ballet
This article focuses on popular-press assessments of New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan as a way to consider, first, how gender norms affect dance criticism, specifically in ballet, and, second, what might constitute a feminist approach to ballet criticism. In the reviews selected for analysis, critics return to three themes, all of which circumscribe Whelan's artistic agency: her onstage relationship to male partners, her relatio…
Dance Returns to American Cultural Diplomacy
By focusing on a 2003 dance residency program sponsored by the U.S. State Department, this article locates twenty-first century American cultural diplomacy in a post-9/11 political context. The article focuses specifically on collaboration between San Francisco–based Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and Kolkata, India–based Tansuree Shankar Dance, which grew from the 2003 residency, to consider how artists find ways to facilitate cultural diplomacy…
Ballet Nations
In 1962, the New York City Ballet performed in Moscow as part of its eight-week US State Department-sponsored Soviet tour while the world anxiously watched the unfolding of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This article examines the coincidence of these events from the perspectives of dancers who traveled on the tour, demonstrating how arts programs, even when sponsored by the US government, do not export a consolidated, coherent representation of US nat…
Tempo de Verão (review)
Dancing Communities
Reviewed by: Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in The Global City Clare Croft Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in The Global City. By Judith Hamera . Studies in International Performance series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xiv + 238. $74.95 cloth. In the introduction to Dancing Communities, Judith Hamera reimagines the role of technique in dance, describing it as both an object of…
Ballet Nations
In 1962, the New York City Ballet performed in Moscow as part of its eight-week US State Department-sponsored Soviet tour while the world anxiously watched the unfolding of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This article examines the coincidence of these events from the perspectives of dancers who traveled on the tour, demonstrating how arts programs, even when sponsored by the US government, do not export a consolidated, coherent representation of US nat…
Dancing Communities
Reviewed by: Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in The Global City Clare Croft Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in The Global City. By Judith Hamera . Studies in International Performance series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xiv + 238. $74.95 cloth. In the introduction to Dancing Communities, Judith Hamera reimagines the role of technique in dance, describing it as both an object of…
Tempo de Verão (review)
Ballet Nations
In 1962, the New York City Ballet performed in Moscow as part of its eight-week US State Department-sponsored Soviet tour while the world anxiously watched the unfolding of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This article examines the coincidence of these events from the perspectives of dancers who traveled on the tour, demonstrating how arts programs, even when sponsored by the US government, do not export a consolidated, coherent representation of US nat…
Dance Returns to American Cultural Diplomacy
By focusing on a 2003 dance residency program sponsored by the U.S. State Department, this article locates twenty-first century American cultural diplomacy in a post-9/11 political context. The article focuses specifically on collaboration between San Francisco–based Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and Kolkata, India–based Tansuree Shankar Dance, which grew from the 2003 residency, to consider how artists find ways to facilitate cultural diplomacy…
Feminist Dance Criticism and Ballet
This article focuses on popular-press assessments of New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan as a way to consider, first, how gender norms affect dance criticism, specifically in ballet, and, second, what might constitute a feminist approach to ballet criticism. In the reviews selected for analysis, critics return to three themes, all of which circumscribe Whelan's artistic agency: her onstage relationship to male partners, her relatio…
Queer Dance
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scho…
Expressing Life Through Loss
This chapter examines the relationship between blackness, queer vulnerability, and the mechanics of movement and dance. It uses anecdotes to make an argument for downward movement and concaveness as movement techniques, responses to the physical threats intrinsic to black ontology. It examines the relationship between those movements and shapes in the black body to an emergent style of performance called “queer dance.” This relationship might be …
A Provocation Towards Moving
Research Article| June 01 2017 a provocation towards moving Clare Croft; Clare Croft Clare Croft is a dance historian, theorist, and sometimes dramaturg. She is the editor of Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford 2017) and the author of Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange (Oxford 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Efren Cruz Cortez; Efren Cruz Cortez Efrén Cruz Cortez studies large a…
Living a feminist life Sara Ahmed
Lesbian Echoes in Activism and Writing
Criticism
Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Dance (5 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)