School of Dance Book Reading with Dr. Hannah Schwadron

Please join the FSU School of Dance for a book reading with a member of the FSU Dance faculty on April 20th at 6:00pm in Montgomery Hall, Room 215. Dr. Hannah Schwadron, Assistant Professor of Dance History, will read from her new book The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-Work in U.S. Pop Culture before the opening night of Days of Dance!

Today’s sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn to construct the 21st Century Jewish American woman through charisma and comic craft, in-your-face antics, and offensive charm. Entangling questions of sexiness to race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess frames an embodied joke-work genre that is most often, but not always meant to be funny.