The Choreography of Antony Tudor

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639481
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Choreography of Antony Tudor by : Rachel S. Chamberlain Duerden

Download or read book The Choreography of Antony Tudor written by Rachel S. Chamberlain Duerden and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets presents both an analytical overview of the ballets created for the stage by Antony Tudor and an in-depth critical analysis of four key works: Jardin aux Lilas (1936), Dark Elegies (1937), Pillar of Fire (1942), and The Leaves Are Fading (1975). Tudor was a British choreographer who spent a large part of his working life in the United States, and although he was not prolific in his output, his works include several masterpieces of twentieth-century ballet repertoire. Characteristic of his work is an exceptionally creative and sensitive relationship of choreography with music, a relationship different from that developed by his equally musical contemporary, George Balanchine, in that it privileges subtle layers of dramatic, often psychological, exposition as well as complex mythmical structures. Tudor's ballets invariably involve a psychological human dimension, even when there is no story as such, and it is these two strands - the musical and the dramatic - that the choreographer exploits with consummate skill in the best of his work.

Soirée Musicale

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9782881249112
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Soirée Musicale by : Antony Tudor

Download or read book Soirée Musicale written by Antony Tudor and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the full Labanotation score of "Soiree Musicale" with detailed study and performance notes, historical background and photographs. The first Tudor ballet to be made available in published form, "Tudor's Soiree Musicale" marks the first step towards preserving the work of this internationally celebrated choreographer, who pointed the way to a deeper psychological insight into the art of ballet. "Soiree Musicale" is a charming, lively piece which is suited to classroom study and stage performance. Although technically demanding when performed to full tempo, the dances allow for a degree of personal interpretation which can surmount technical problems. Ann Hutchinson Guest was a founder and for twenty years director of the New York City Dance Notation Bureau. She has been at the forefront of the development and use of Labanotation, spearheading new ideas in teaching methods incorporating notation. She is presently director of the Lan

Classes in Classical Ballet

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103446
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Classes in Classical Ballet by : Asaf Messerer

Download or read book Classes in Classical Ballet written by Asaf Messerer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teaching manual from the founder of the Bolshoi school of Ballet, contains instructions for six advanced classes of ballet.

Choreography Observed

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0877455937
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)

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Book Synopsis Choreography Observed by : Jack Anderson

Download or read book Choreography Observed written by Jack Anderson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Choreography Observed, Jack Anderson has selected writings that focus most directly on choreographers and choreography in order to illuminate the delights and problems of dance and to reveal the nature of this nonverbal but intensely expressive art form.

The Ballets of Antony Tudor

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ballets of Antony Tudor by : Judith Chazin-Bennahum

Download or read book The Ballets of Antony Tudor written by Judith Chazin-Bennahum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was instrumental in the establishment of the American Ballet Theater and its rise to prominence as one of the world's great ballet companies.

No Fixed Points

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ISBN 13 : 9780300259322
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Book Synopsis No Fixed Points by : Nancy Reynolds

Download or read book No Fixed Points written by Nancy Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566744
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance by : Lynn Garafola

Download or read book Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance written by Lynn Garafola and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.

Apollo's Angels

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679603905
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Book Synopsis Apollo's Angels by : Jennifer Homans

Download or read book Apollo's Angels written by Jennifer Homans and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”

28 Artists & 2 Saints

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307389278
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis 28 Artists & 2 Saints by : Joan Acocella

Download or read book 28 Artists & 2 Saints written by Joan Acocella and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.

Private Domain

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Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394516837
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)

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Book Synopsis Private Domain by : Paul Taylor

Download or read book Private Domain written by Paul Taylor and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1987 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerikansk balletdanser og koregraf

Chance and Circumstance

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307575608
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Chance and Circumstance by : Carolyn Brown

Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.

The Making of Markova

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Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781605985787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Markova written by Tina Sutton and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees, and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at his famed Ballets Russes. It was there that George Balanchine choreographed his first ballet for her, Henri Matisse designed her costumes, and Igor Stravinsky taught her music—all when the re-christened Alicia Markova was just 14. Given unprecedented access to Dame Markova’s intimate journals and correspondence, Tina Sutton paints a full picture of the dancer’s astonishing life and times in 1920s Paris and Monte Carlo, 1930s London, and wartime in New York and Hollywood. Ballet lovers and readers everywhere will be fascinated by the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists.

Push Comes to Shove

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Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Push Comes to Shove by : Twyla Tharp

Download or read book Push Comes to Shove written by Twyla Tharp and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued to coincide with the Twyla Tharp-Mikhail Baryshnikov national tour, premier choreographer Twyla Tharp reveals her extraordinary odyssey that changed contemporary dance. She recounts her unique story, from her childhood to her training in classical ballet to her struggle to find her own vision. Photographs.

Martha Graham's Cold War

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ISBN 13 : 0190610360
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Martha Graham's Cold War by : Victoria Phillips

Download or read book Martha Graham's Cold War written by Victoria Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I am not a propagandist," declared the matriarch of American modern dance Martha Graham while on her State Department funded-tour in 1955. Graham's claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to over twenty-seven countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Near and Far East, and Russia representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H.W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field, she was titled "The Picasso of modern dance," and "Forever Modern" in later years, Graham proclaimed, "I am not a modernist." During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of "the heart and soul of mankind," suited political needs abroad. In addition, she declared, "I am not a feminist," yet she intersected with politically powerful women from Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower's Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford, and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters on the frontier and biblical characters to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham explained, "I am not a missionary." Her work promoted the United States as modern, culturally sophisticated, racially and culturally integrated. To her abstract and mythic works, she added the trope of the American frontier. With her tours and Cold War modernism, Graham demonstrates the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and, ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance"--

Undimmed Lustre

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Book Synopsis Undimmed Lustre by : Muriel Topaz

Download or read book Undimmed Lustre written by Muriel Topaz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undimmed Lustre: The Life of Antony Tudor is a chronological biography of one of the most creative forces in dance of the 20th century. Born in 1908 in London, Tudor was raised in a lower middle class family on the streets of London's meat market district. Although he had no formal exposure to dance, he spent the first decade of his professional life as one of the founding members of the Ballet Rambert. In America, he became an all-important force and a prime mover in American Ballet Theatre for the most of its early history. His contributions to the development of the art of the classical ballet are inestimable, for he single-handedly introduced a new direction into the ballet world. Tudor imbued the simplest gesture with profound meaning, bringing drama into "academic" ballet, by mixing classical vocabulary, Freudian ideas, and Stanislavkian methodology and cinematic techniques into his dances. Tudor's enigmatic personality, his English propriety mixed with his rapier-sharp and often vulgar wit, his insecurities, and his total inability to compromise artistically, all made him a controversial figure in the very communal dance world. This book, written by Muriel Topaz, student, colleague, notator, assistant, and long time friend of Tudor's, reveals the misconceptions and contradictions that have attached themselves to the artist. Based on never-before seen personal archives, correspondence, and copious interviews as well as grant-supported research conducted in England, the United States, Sweden, Australia, Israel, Japan, and France, this work is a wonderful resource for dance teachers and students or anyone interested in classical ballet.

Literature, Modernism, and Dance

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199565325
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature, Modernism, and Dance by : Susan Jones

Download or read book Literature, Modernism, and Dance written by Susan Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Modernism, and Dance explores the complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period

Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569747
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance by : Janet Mansfield Soares

Download or read book Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance written by Janet Mansfield Soares and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and intimate portrait of an unsung heroine in American dance Martha Hill (1900–1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her vision and leadership helped to establish dance as a serious area of study at the university level and solidify its position as a legitimate art form. Setting Hill's story in the context of American postwar culture and women's changing status, this riveting biography shows us how Hill led her colleagues in the development of American contemporary dance from the Kellogg School of Physical Education to Bennington College and the American Dance Festival to the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center. She created pivotal opportunities for Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, and many others. The book provides an intimate look at the struggles and achievements of a woman dedicated to taking dance out of the college gymnasium and into the theatre, drawing on primary sources that were previously unavailable. It is lavishly illustrated with period photographs.