Author: Jean Morrison BrownPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A collection of writings by 21 major figures in modern dance.
Author: Jean Morrison Brown
Author: Jean Morrison (ed.) BrownHarnessing the Wind
Author: Jan ErkertPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736044875
Category : Modern dance
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Illustrated with abstract and imaginative photographs, this is a philosophical guide for the dance field about the art of teaching modern dance. Integrating somatic theories, scientific research and contemporary aesthetic practices, it asks the reader to reconsider how and why they teach.
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
Author: Joshua LeggPublisher: Dance Horizons
ISBN: 9780871273253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --
The Vision of Modern Dance
Author: Jean Morrison BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871274045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dance is a non-verbal art form, often subject to the interpretation of the viewer.The Vision of Modern Dance is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. They were revolutionaries, with each succeeding generation rebelling against the last. It begins with Isadora Duncan who rejected ballet as unnatural land clothed herself in Greek tunics. It continues with statements by the early moderns, Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, and Charles Weidman.Though modern dance was considered to be American, there was a paralleldevelopment in Germany known as expressive dance, represented in thiscollection by Mary Wigman and Hanya Holm. The Nazi era curtailedGerman expressionism, but it later reemerged as dance theater, notably inthe iconoclastic works of Pina Bausch, who is represented here. True to itsliberating heritage, modern dance has spread around the world with its message of freedom of expression. One of the foremost contemporary exponents, the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, has the last word.
Author: Selma Jeanne CohenStepping Left
Author: Ellen GraffPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this period, describing the moment in American dance history when the revolutionary fervor of "dancing modern" was joined with the revolutionary vision promised by the Soviet Union. This account reveals the major contribution of Communist and left-wing politics to modern dance during its formative years in New York City. From Communist Party pageants to union hall performances to benefits for the Spanish Civil War, Graff documents the passionate involvement of American dancers in the political and social controversies that raged throughout the Depression era. Dancers formed collectives and experimented with collaborative methods of composition at the same time that they were marching in May Day parades, demonstrating for workers' rights, and protesting the rise of fascism in Europe. Graff records the explosion of choreographic activity that accompanied this lively period--when modern dance was trying to establish legitimacy and its own audience. Stepping Left restores a missing legacy to the history of American dance, a vibrant moment that was supressed in the McCarthy era and almost lost to memory. Revisiting debates among writers and dancers about the place of political content and ethnicity in new dance forms, Stepping Left is a landmark work of dance history.
Author: Jane Desmond
Author: Jennifer H. Mitchell