Abstract
WE ARE ALL MARLENE DIETRICH FOR: Performance for Peacekeeping Soldiers and P.E.A.C.E. are two rare examples of works of art that deal with the role of the peacekeeping soldier. They are complex in that they are both highly satirical and deadly serious, and both at the same time. This ambiguity is part of how these works work by means of proposals that are outrageous while simultaneously being direct extrapolations of accepted cultural perceptions, ideologies, and very concrete phenomena. WE ARE ALL MARLENE DIETRICH FOR. Performance for Peacekeeping Soldier does so in a dance performance that creatively explores some of these complexities on stage. P.E.A.C.E. on the other hand may be called an example of what Thompson and Sholette (2004) have termed interventionist art. Our text reflects on these two projects and explores the proposals presented by them.
Keywords: Peacekeeping soldier, interventionist art, role models, entertainment, hired bodies, diplomacy.
Keywords: Peacekeeping soldier, interventionist art, role models, entertainment, hired bodies, diplomacy.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Choreographies of 21st Century Wars |
Editors | Gay Morris, Jens Giersdorf |
Place of Publication | Oxford and New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 223-240 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-020167-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Publication series
Name | Oxford Studies in Dance Theory |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Keywords
- Peacekeeping soldiers
- interventionist art
- role models
- entertainment
- hired bodies
- diplomacy