Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism
Banes, Sally
Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism Sally Banes. - [Middletown, Conn.] Hanover Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England c1994 - xv, 412 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index.
Writing criticism/history. Jill Johnston : signaling through the flames -- Working and dancing : a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" / with Noθel Carroll -- Criticism as ethnography -- On your fingertips : writing dance criticism -- Power and the dancing body. The Euro-American Avant-Garde. Balanchine and black dance -- An introduction to the Ballets Suedois -- Soiree de Paris -- Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos -- Merce Cunningham's Story -- Cunningham and Duchamp / with Noθel Carroll. The African-American connection. To the beat, y'all : breaking is hard to do -- Breakdancing : a reporter's story -- Lock steady -- Critic's choice : breakdancing -- Breaking -- A house is not a home -- Breaking changing -- The pleasin' in teasin' -- The Moscow Charleston : black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union. Other subversions : politics and popular dance. Stepping high : Fred Astaire's drunk dances -- The men at John Allen's dance house -- Red shoes : the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s. Postmodern dance : from the sixties to the nineties. Judson rides again! -- Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater -- Vital signs : Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective -- Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon : notes from a journal -- Dancing on the edge -- "Drive," she said : the dance of Molissa Fenley -- Self-rising choreography -- Transparent living -- No more ordinary bodies -- Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance -- Pointe of departure -- Classical brinksmanship : Karole Armitage and Michael Clark -- Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe : postmodern dance revisited -- Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music : vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography -- La onda prβoxima : nueva Latina dance -- Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties / with Noθel Carroll -- Dancing in leaner times -- Going solo.
0819562688
Μπαλέτο--Ιστορία--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες--20ος αιώνας
Χορός--Ιστορία--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες--20ος αιώνας
792.809
Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism Sally Banes. - [Middletown, Conn.] Hanover Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England c1994 - xv, 412 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index.
Writing criticism/history. Jill Johnston : signaling through the flames -- Working and dancing : a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" / with Noθel Carroll -- Criticism as ethnography -- On your fingertips : writing dance criticism -- Power and the dancing body. The Euro-American Avant-Garde. Balanchine and black dance -- An introduction to the Ballets Suedois -- Soiree de Paris -- Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos -- Merce Cunningham's Story -- Cunningham and Duchamp / with Noθel Carroll. The African-American connection. To the beat, y'all : breaking is hard to do -- Breakdancing : a reporter's story -- Lock steady -- Critic's choice : breakdancing -- Breaking -- A house is not a home -- Breaking changing -- The pleasin' in teasin' -- The Moscow Charleston : black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union. Other subversions : politics and popular dance. Stepping high : Fred Astaire's drunk dances -- The men at John Allen's dance house -- Red shoes : the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s. Postmodern dance : from the sixties to the nineties. Judson rides again! -- Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater -- Vital signs : Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective -- Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon : notes from a journal -- Dancing on the edge -- "Drive," she said : the dance of Molissa Fenley -- Self-rising choreography -- Transparent living -- No more ordinary bodies -- Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance -- Pointe of departure -- Classical brinksmanship : Karole Armitage and Michael Clark -- Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe : postmodern dance revisited -- Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music : vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography -- La onda prβoxima : nueva Latina dance -- Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties / with Noθel Carroll -- Dancing in leaner times -- Going solo.
0819562688
Μπαλέτο--Ιστορία--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες--20ος αιώνας
Χορός--Ιστορία--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες--20ος αιώνας
792.809
