Author: Suzanne Shelton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780292770461
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.
Ruth St. Denis
Author: Suzanne Shelton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780292770461
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780292770461
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.
Divine Dancer
Author: Suzanne Shelton
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Ruth St. Denis
Author: Ruth St. Denis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404180751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404180751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Wisdom Comes Dancing
Author: Ruth St. Denis
Publisher: Peaceworks International Center for the
ISBN: 9780915424146
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Peaceworks International Center for the
ISBN: 9780915424146
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Miss Ruth
Author: Walter Terry
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Ruth St. Denis
Author: Vito Di Bernardi
Publisher: L'Epos
ISBN: 9788883023149
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : it
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: L'Epos
ISBN: 9788883023149
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : it
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ruth St. Denis, an Unfinished Life
Author: Ruth St. Denis
Publisher: Brooklyn : [Dance Horizons
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher: Brooklyn : [Dance Horizons
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Ted Shawn
Author: Paul A. Scolieri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199331065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his prot�g�s Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199331065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his prot�g�s Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism.
Ruth St. Denis
Author: Ruth Shawn (formerly Dennis calling herself Ruth St. Denis.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Professional Appearances of Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn
Author: Christena L. Schlundt
Publisher: New York : New York Public Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher: New York : New York Public Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description