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Abstract: Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years in the Japanese internment camps, later repatriating to Japan, where he contributed to imperial war efforts by creating propaganda performances and performing revues for the occupying Allied Forces in Tokyo. Throughout, Ito continually invented stories of voyages made, artists befriended, performances seen, and political activities carried out-stories later dismissed as false. Fantasies of Ito Michio argues that these invented stories, unrealized projects, and questionable political affiliations are as fundamental to Ito's career as his "real" activities, helping us understand how he sustained himself across experiences of racialization, imperialism, war, and internment. Tara Rodman reveals a narrative of Ito's life that foregrounds the fabricated and overlooked to highlight his involvement with Japanese artists, such as Yamada Kosaku and Ishii Baku, and global modernist movements. Rodman offers "fantasy" as a rubric for understanding how individuals such as Ito sustain themselves in periods of violent disruption and as a scholarly methodology for engaging the past.

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Japanese Exemplarity and Exceptionalism: Germany, 1912-1914
• 2. Modernist Mythologizing: London, 1914-1916
• 3. Japoniste Collections: New York, 1916-1929
• 4. Japanese America and Fantasies of Integration: California, 1929-1941
• 5. Cosmopolitanism, Masculinity, and National Embodiment in the Borderless Empire: Japan, 1931
• Mexico, 1934
• Japan, 1939-1940
• Japan, 1940-1941
• 6. Pan-Asianism between Internment and Propaganda: The Asia-Pacific War, 1941-1945
• 7. Being Watched: Making New Bodies for a New Japan, 1945-1955
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Author/Creator:

Rodman, Tara , author

Contributors:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fantasies of Ito Michio [by Rodman, T.]

Related Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance

Subjects:

Itō, Michio, 1893-1961

Choreographers — Japan — 20th century — Biography

Dancers — Japan — 20th century — Biography

Dance — Political aspects — Japan

Dance — Social aspects — Japan

Modern dance — Japan

1900-1999

Dancers

Dance — Political aspects

Dance

Dance — Social aspects

Modern dance

Choreographers

Japan

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.
Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages) : illustrations.

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Call Numbers:

GV1785.I86 R636 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780472904488 (open access)
0472904485 (open access)
9780472076833 (hardcover book) [Invalid]
9780472056835 (paperback book) [Invalid]

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.3998/mpub.12781398

OCLC Numbers:

1436704977