The Vision of Modern Dance

The Vision of Modern Dance
Title The Vision of Modern Dance PDF eBook
Author Jean Morrison Brown
Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
Pages 220
Release 1979
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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A collection of writings by 21 major figures in modern dance.

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
Title Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques PDF eBook
Author Joshua Legg
Publisher Dance Horizons
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780871273253

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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. --

Harnessing the Wind

Harnessing the Wind
Title Harnessing the Wind PDF eBook
Author Jan Erkert
Publisher Human Kinetics
Pages 236
Release 2003
Genre Medical
ISBN 9780736044875

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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.

The Vision of Modern Dance

The Vision of Modern Dance
Title The Vision of Modern Dance PDF eBook
Author Jean Morrison Brown
Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
Pages 216
Release 1979
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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"The vision of modern dance" reveals, in the words of 21 of its most famous creators, how the revolution of modern dance was born and how, through succeeding generations of artists, it has renewed itself. (4e de couverture).

Modern Bodies

Modern Bodies
Title Modern Bodies PDF eBook
Author Julia L. Foulkes
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 272
Release 2003-11-03
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0807862029

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In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.

The Modern Dance

The Modern Dance
Title The Modern Dance PDF eBook
Author Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher Wesleyan University Press
Pages 113
Release 2011-07-21
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0819570931

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CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.

Ballet for Martha

Ballet for Martha
Title Ballet for Martha PDF eBook
Author Jan Greenberg
Publisher Flash Point
Pages 52
Release 2010-08-03
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1466818611

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A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.