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Dances About Spain: Censorship at the Federal Theatre Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2004

ELIZABETH COOPER
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Abstract

In 1939 the Chicago and New York City dance units of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project premiered two works inspired by the events of the Spanish Civil War. This paper offers an examination of the conflicts that arose in presenting dances about a war in which the US government adopted a position of neutrality, but about which many artists took a profoundly partisan stance. Further, this research unveils how internal censorship at the Federal Theatre Project affected the creation and presentation of these dances as well as ways in which the choreographers (Ruth Page/Bentley Stone and Helen Tamiris) subverted requests for alterations to their scenarios and choreography.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , October 2004 , pp. 232 - 246
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© International Federation for Theatre Research 2004

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