Ballet Nations
The New York City Ballet's 1962 US State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4552208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Croft (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-442 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.0.0199 |
| OpenAlex | W2055256441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
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 national identity. Using oral-history interviews with dancers who traveled on the tour and choreographic analysis of George Balanchine's ballet Serenade (1934), the article explores how the dancers' experience and ballet's hybrid origins undermine cold war narratives of the United States and the USSR as polar opposites
Art · Art history · Ballet · Cold war · Dance · George (robot · Government (linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Soviet union · State (computer science · The arts · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |