<p> <i>The Againness of Vietnam in Contemporary United States Antiwar Choreography</i> examines eight twentieth- and twenty-first century postmodern antiwar choreographies in order to uncover the reverberations of Vietnam antiwar protests in these dances. The choreographies I examine in this study are Yvonne Rainer’s 1970 <i>M-Walk</i> and 1970 (and 1999) <i>Trio A with Flags</i>, Wendy Rogers’ 1970 <i> Black Maypole</i>, Ann Carlson’s 1990 <i>Flag</i> and 2006 <i>Too Beautiful A Day</i>, Miguel Gutierrez’s 2001, 2008, and 2009 <i>Freedom of Information</i> (<i>FOI</i>), Jeff McMahon’s 1991 <i>Scatter</i> and Victoria Mark’s 2006 <i>Action Conversations: Veterans.</i> I theorize a concept called “againness,” in order to think through the multiple ways that repetitions specific to these particular choreographies continue to exist and to enact effects through time. I argue that repeated choreographic embodiment offers immediacy, nuanced response over time, expression through the bodies of former soldiers, and sites of mediated resistance such as live-streamed dance protest, to the United States public’s commentary on and critique of war. I conclude that choreography’s irregular and inexact repetitions are one of the ways that dance is especially apt for commenting on the large, never-ending, and ongoing traumas of the world such as war. My research extends established discussions about choreographic repetition and ephemerality, exchanging in questions of exactitude for conversations about impact. In particular, I show how the changes inherent to bodily repetitions reflect societal change, raise energy, garner power, and/or respond to current events. I study how politicized dances do not disappear after the time/space event of the initial performance, but instead linger on and reappear in unexpected moments. I thus parse out the many unbounded ways that protest choreographies happen again and again.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:3731833 |
| Date | 03 November 2015 |
| Creators | Dellecave, Jessica Spring |
| Publisher | University of California, Riverside |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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