Remembering a Deathly Dance

Analyzing the rise of Suharto's Cold War right-wing regime in Indonesia (1965-89), Larasati uncovers the hidden violence of the state: the disappearance and genocide of artists and cultural practitioners-especially women-and, in the wake of that violence, the production of dance replicas who perform for the nation and its global alliances. Jumping across time and space and between memoir and analysis, practice and theory, The Dance That Makes You Vanish is a compelling and ambitious ethnography that draws on dance theory and history, performance studies, and transnational feminist cultural studies.