Book Description
Traces the history of dance from the ancient world to the present and discusses the contributions of influential dancers and choreographers.
Author : Jack Anderson
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 9780916622435
Traces the history of dance from the ancient world to the present and discusses the contributions of influential dancers and choreographers.
Author : Jan Erkert
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : 9780736044875
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.
Author : J. E. Crawford Flitch
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book is concerned mostly with the ballet of both the Russian and English schools. Where other dance styles are mentioned they are considered with reference to ballet. Several famous ballerinas are mentioned, such as Anna Pavlova. There are also illustrations.
Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1452913439
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author : Maxwell Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226532448
Mitchell takes us inside a movement that is increasingly occupying the national consciousness, into a compelling, hidden world, far more connected to the chaos of modern life than its caricature as a freakish antigovernment activity would suggest."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Joshua Legg
Publisher : Dance Horizons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780871273253
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. --
Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107196221
The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.
Author : Elizabeth B. Schwall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469662981
Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cuban dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases. As esteemed artists, Cuban dancers exercised considerable power and influence. They often used their art to posit more radical notions of social justice than political leaders were able or willing to implement. After 1959, while generally promoting revolutionary projects like mass education and internationalist solidarity, they also took risks by challenging racial prejudice, gender norms, and censorship, all of which could affect dancers personally. On a broader level, Schwall shows that dance, too often overlooked in histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, provides fresh perspectives on what it means for people, and nations, to move through the world.
Author : John Ernest Crawford Flitch
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Ballet
ISBN :