Olive Mckeon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olive Mckeon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olive |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeon |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Olive Mckeon completed her PHD at UCLA and teaches in the Critical Studies department at the California College of the Arts. She writes on the intersections between Marxist political economy, feminism, and dance studies. . |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dance Chronicle ’s Past and Futures
The Searing and Fleeting Improvisational World of Grand Union
Dance critic and editor Wendy Perron has published a new volume titled The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976. The improvisational dance group Grand Union brought toget
Learning from Experience
In recent years, a growing number of artists and performers have become involved with a group psychoanalytic practice called the Tavistock method. British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) initiated this methodology, which centres on the study of the ‘here-and-now’ within group life. Exploring the unconscious dynamics within groups, Bion’s approach evolved into a model known as a group relations conference, an experiential meeting in which m…
Rethinking Anna Halprin’s Parades and Changes
While choreographer Anna Halprin’s work has been characterized as embodying the cultural ethos of the New Left, it is also aligned with the race and class interests that spearheaded urban renewal in San Francisco. Contextualizing Halprin’s Parades and Changes in relation to political and economic developments during the 1960s suggests the work’s contradictory affiliation with both an urban elite and utopian countercultures
Florence Treadwell Boynton in Progressive Era Berkeley
Florence Treadwell Boynton was a dancer, teacher, and bohemian health enthusiast who spent most of her life in Berkeley, California. A childhood friend and contemporary of Isadora Duncan, Boynton espoused a similar movement aesthetic. Yet, in spite of her lively contributions to the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has remained largely a footnote in the extensive literature on Duncan. Revisionist histories often draw out the impor…
The Wallflower Order and Social Reproduction
Emerging out of the women’s liberation movements of the 1970s, a group of dancers founded the Wallflower Order Dance Collective (1975–1984), one of the first explicitly feminist dance groups in the US. It’s clear from looking at the networks of support set up for creating their work, their collective process, and their eventual split, that the Wallflower Order embodies the contradictions of social reproduction
Opening All of the Windows
Florence Treadwell Boynton in Progressive Era Berkeley
Florence Treadwell Boynton was a dancer, teacher, and bohemian health enthusiast who spent most of her life in Berkeley, California. A childhood friend and contemporary of Isadora Duncan, Boynton espoused a similar movement aesthetic. Yet, in spite of her lively contributions to the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has remained largely a footnote in the extensive literature on Duncan. Revisionist histories often draw out the impor…
Opening All of the Windows
The Wallflower Order and Social Reproduction
Emerging out of the women’s liberation movements of the 1970s, a group of dancers founded the Wallflower Order Dance Collective (1975–1984), one of the first explicitly feminist dance groups in the US. It’s clear from looking at the networks of support set up for creating their work, their collective process, and their eventual split, that the Wallflower Order embodies the contradictions of social reproduction
Learning from Experience
In recent years, a growing number of artists and performers have become involved with a group psychoanalytic practice called the Tavistock method. British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) initiated this methodology, which centres on the study of the ‘here-and-now’ within group life. Exploring the unconscious dynamics within groups, Bion’s approach evolved into a model known as a group relations conference, an experiential meeting in which m…
Rethinking Anna Halprin’s Parades and Changes
While choreographer Anna Halprin’s work has been characterized as embodying the cultural ethos of the New Left, it is also aligned with the race and class interests that spearheaded urban renewal in San Francisco. Contextualizing Halprin’s Parades and Changes in relation to political and economic developments during the 1960s suggests the work’s contradictory affiliation with both an urban elite and utopian countercultures
Florence Treadwell Boynton in Progressive Era Berkeley
Florence Treadwell Boynton was a dancer, teacher, and bohemian health enthusiast who spent most of her life in Berkeley, California. A childhood friend and contemporary of Isadora Duncan, Boynton espoused a similar movement aesthetic. Yet, in spite of her lively contributions to the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has remained largely a footnote in the extensive literature on Duncan. Revisionist histories often draw out the impor…
Dance Chronicle ’s Past and Futures
The Searing and Fleeting Improvisational World of Grand Union
Dance critic and editor Wendy Perron has published a new volume titled The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976. The improvisational dance group Grand Union brought toget
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