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Author : Barbara Brooks Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Faces of Modern Dance written by Barbara Brooks Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819560032
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Modern Dance written by Selma Jeanne Cohen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book choreographers provide their definitions and interpretations of modern dance based on their own experience.
Author : Walter Sorell
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231029681
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Dance Has Many Faces written by Walter Sorell and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 29 essays discuss the many aspects of ballet and modern dance emphasizing contemporary movements in these arts
Author : Don McDonagh
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Modern Dance written by Don McDonagh and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1976 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913439
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The People Have Never Stopped Dancing written by Jacqueline Shea Murphy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107196221
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Dancing in the Blood written by Edward Ross Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Connie Kreemer
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Further Steps written by Connie Kreemer and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter begins with a brief biography and concludes with a chronological works list.
Author : Murray Louis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134955804
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique written by Murray Louis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive resource for understanding and practicing the influential dance technique developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique is presented in a week-to-week classroom manual, providing an indispensable tool for teachers and students of this widely studied movement practice. Theoretical background for further reading is set off from the manual for those interested in deeper study. Their philosophy and methodology span a broad readership and offer an important addition to dance literature and American cultural history.
Author : Lilian Karina
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816887
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Dancers written by Lilian Karina and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.
Author : Vernon Castle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern Dancing written by Vernon Castle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019762037X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Facial Choreographies written by Sherril Dodds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance examines what the face does in dance and what it may mean. Author Sherril Dodds focuses on popular presentational dance, which permits the face to be one of excess and spectacle, as well as disclosure or deception. The concept of facial choreography resists the idea that the expressive countenance in dance is simply by chance, and instead conceives its movement as purposeful, creative, and communicative. The book centers on three facial case studies: global celebrity Michael Jackson, whose face has occupied a site of fervent controversy; Maddie Ziegler, child star of the reality television series Dance Moms and de facto face of pop star Sia; and a community of hip hop dancers who engage in fiercely contested dance battles. Chapters are organized according to action-expressions, actively working even in times of stillness: SMILE, LOOK, FROWN, CRY, SCREAM, and LAUGH. Across each case study, the book explores pedagogies of facial composition, the purpose of codified expressions, and how dancers re-choreograph their faces as a critical unworking of what a dancing visage might represent. Facial choreographies engender opportunity for startling creativity, the articulation of identity, a cathartic expression of emotions and attitudes, and the capacity to dismantle previously held assumptions. As the dancing face tauntingly slips between visual, sensory, and kinetic registers it ensures that nothing can be taken at face value.
Author : Donald N. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429715854
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Korea Briefing, 1993 written by Donald N. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Korea Briefing, the fourth in the series, is issued in conjunction with The Asia Society's Festival of Korea, a yearlong, nationwide celebration of Korean history, culture, and contemporary life.
Author : David M. Lubin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283635
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Flags and Faces written by David M. Lubin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 to the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, American artists and designers used their well-honed visual skills to campaign for or against intervention. During this period, Old Glory assumed its present role as a patriotic icon. After the war, as Americans tried to forget the horrors their soldiers had encountered abroad, medical advances in facial reconstruction for disfigured combatants gave rise to cosmetic plastic surgery and a flourishing makeup industry, elements in a conspicuously new distaste for plainness and aging and obsession with youth and beauty. Flags and Faces analyzes these respective aspects of American visual culture in the shadow of the First World War"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Katherine Mezur
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054554
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Corporeal Politics written by Katherine Mezur and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571806
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Terpsichore in Sneakers written by Sally Banes and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dance critic's essays on post-modern dance. Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Bane's Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to other oppositional, often marginalized strands of dance culture, and considers how certain kinds of dance move from the margins to the mainstream. Banes begins by considering the act of dance criticism itself, exploring its modes, methods, and underlying assumptions and examining the work of other critics. She traces the development of contemporary dance from the early work of such influential figures as Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine to such contemporary choreographers as Molissa Fenley, Karole Armitage, and Michael Clark. She analyzes the contributions of the Judson Dance Theatre and the Workers' Dance League, the emergence of Latin postmodern dance in New York, and the impact of black jazz in Russia. In addition, Banes explores such untraditional performance modes as breakdancing and the "drunk dancing" of Fred Astaire.
Author : Philip Trager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Faces written by Philip Trager and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The photographs in Faces - isolated from dance movement - present an innovative kind of portraiture. Creating psychological theatre, these startling and mysterious images are intensely emotional, provocative, and stunningly beautiful."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jack Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Art Without Boundaries written by Jack Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating modern dance as a self-renewing art, Anderson follows its changes over the decades and discusses the visionary choreographers (some of whose lives are as colorful and tumultuous as their creations) who have devised new modes of movement. Art without Boundaries begins with an analysis of the rich mixture of American and European influences at the end of the nineteenth century that prompted dancers to react against established norms. Anderson shows how reformist social and educational ideas as well as the impact of the arts of Asia and ancient Greece led such pioneers as Loie Fuller, Maud Allan, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis to forge deeply personal views. Anderson discusses the increasingly bold approaches of choreographers and dancers after World War I, how the politically troubled thirties gave rise to social protest dance in America, and how the menace of facism was reflected in the work of European practitioners. Following World War II many European nations turned to ballet, whereas American modern dance prospered under inventive new choreographers like Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Alwin Nikolais. The book concludes with an authoritative view of how modern dance thrives once again on a worldwide basis.
