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Weaponizing Ballet: An Episode In American Cold War Diplomacy, Remy Laray Naumann
Weaponizing Ballet: An Episode In American Cold War Diplomacy, Remy Laray Naumann
Senior Projects Spring 2022
In October 1962, as American citizens were building bomb shelters in their backyards, the New York City Ballet toured the Soviet Union, receiving raving applause from Soviet audiences. The tour is just one example of the many ballet exchanges in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the United States and the Soviet Union. In these acts of cultural diplomacy, ballet companies became ideological weapons, selling their country's achievements to audiences abroad.
Tours such as the New York City Ballet’s 1962 trip have been acknowledged in analyses on cultural diplomacy between the US and Soviet Union in the Cold War …
Iranian Islands?: Bahrain, Abu Masa, And The Tunbs In The Persian Gulf, Lucy Flamm
Iranian Islands?: Bahrain, Abu Masa, And The Tunbs In The Persian Gulf, Lucy Flamm
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.