Political Expression

Library of Congress Exhibit Highlights Intersection of the Dancing Body and Politics

• By Neda Semnani
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 21, 2012, Midnight

There is no greater form of political speech than how one covers, marks, nourishes, medicates, shelters and moves one’s body. The latest exhibit at the Library of Congress, “Politics and the Dancing Body,” considers the effect of dance — and by extension the body — on politics and how the political world shaped and inspired American dance.