Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

'This recent publication is an insightful study on a cultural phenomenon, the Igor Moiseyev Dance Company.'

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: SpectacleChapter 2: Russian Nationalism: The Nation Dance - Russian Identity and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 3: The Cultural Cold War: Dance and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 4: Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev and His Dance Company: A Life in DanceChapter 5: The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, The Igor Moiseyev Ballet, The State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dances of the Peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Three Titles, One CompanyChapter 6: Moiseyev's Movement Vocabulary and Choreographic Strategies Notes References Index

Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

'This recent publication is an insightful study on a cultural phenomenon, the Igor Moiseyev Dance Company.'

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: SpectacleChapter 2: Russian Nationalism: The Nation Dance - Russian Identity and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 3: The Cultural Cold War: Dance and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 4: Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev and His Dance Company: A Life in DanceChapter 5: The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, The Igor Moiseyev Ballet, The State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dances of the Peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Three Titles, One CompanyChapter 6: Moiseyev's Movement Vocabulary and Choreographic Strategies Notes References Index

Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

'This recent publication is an insightful study on a cultural phenomenon, the Igor Moiseyev Dance Company.'

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: SpectacleChapter 2: Russian Nationalism: The Nation Dance - Russian Identity and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 3: The Cultural Cold War: Dance and The Igor Moiseyev Dance CompanyChapter 4: Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev and His Dance Company: A Life in DanceChapter 5: The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, The Igor Moiseyev Ballet, The State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dances of the Peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Three Titles, One CompanyChapter 6: Moiseyev's Movement Vocabulary and Choreographic Strategies Notes References Index