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folk dance
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ideological theater in dance
Igor Moiseyev
intercultural dance narratives
intercultural performance
intercultural understanding through art
Internal and External Propaganda Tool
international relations Cold War
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain cultural exchanges
Lacy-Zarubin Agreement
Los Angeles
mass media Cold War
media and cultural diplomacy
Moiseyev dancers in America
music and dance
New York
Paving the Way for the 1958 Tour
performing arts as soft power
performing ideology in the Cold War
Philadelphia
Poland
postwar cultural cooperation
propaganda
Reception and the Cold War Narrative
reception studies
San Francisco
soft power
soft power through art
Soviet aesthetics in the West
Soviet cultural outreach
Soviet dance history
Soviet dancing
Soviet folk dance abroad
Soviet folk performance
Soviet influence in performing arts
Soviet multicultural performance
Soviet performing arts
Soviet Union
Soviet Union public image abroad
Soviet Union republics
Soviet-American relations
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State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dances of the Peoples of the USSR
transnational Cold War history
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U.S.-USSR cultural diplomacy
US media and Soviet artists
US-Soviet relations
USSR ethnic diversity portrayal
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Uzbekistan
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Washington
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- ISBN 9781625347527
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the Cold War, dancers and musicians from the United States and the USSR were drawn into the battle for hearts and minds, crossing the Iron Curtain to prove their artistic and ideological prowess. After the passage of the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, direct cultural exchange between the two superpowers opened up, and the Moiseyev Dance Company arrived in the United States in 1958. The first Soviet cultural representatives to tour America, this folk-dance troupe’s repertoire included dances from territories controlled or influenced by the USSR, including Uzbekistan, Crimea, and Poland.
Drawing on contemporary personal and published accounts, Victoria Hallinan explores why the dancers garnered overwhelming acclaim during their multicity tour and Ed Sullivan Show appearance. The “boy-meets-girl” love stories of the dances, and their idealized view of multiple Soviet cultures living together in harmony, presented a comforting image of post–World War II gender norms and race relations for audiences. Americans saw the dancers—their supposed enemies—as humans rather than agents of communist contagion.
Victoria Hallinan is program manager of the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs and lecturer in the humanities at Yale University.
