Dancing on violent ground: utopia as dispossession in Euro-American theater dance

Introduction. Unearthing Choreographic Violence

Chapter 1. "This Monument Must Be Eternal": The Sleeping Beauty's Imperialism

Chapter 2. Frontier to Skyscraper: Graham, Balanchine, and Land as Acquisition

Chapter 3. Dancing Nature, Dancing Artifice: Laban, Schlemmer, and Reactionary Living Diagrams

Chapter 4. Choreographing White Ideality: Cunningham and Black Mountain College

Coda. "A Dancefloor for Everyone": Critical Negativity in Dance Research.