Dancing in the Canadian wasteland: a post-colonial reading of regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s

Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn, in "Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s," investigate two distinct artistic dance communities that danced out the divide between high-art/high-class/importation and low-art/low-class local creation. Their separate trajectories helped choreograph the identity of the local region's current dance community, both past and present. The essay also comments on how the politics of whiteness, class, and gender form facets of Canadian regionalism and, in these two dance communities, it finds embodiment of national debates about decolonization and decentralization in the arts.