Author: Gay Cheney
Publisher: Dance Horizons Book
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Presents an overview of the history of modern dance; discusses basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography; and includes illustrated exercises designed to help the dancer learn to use his or her body more effectively.
Basic Concepts in Modern Dance
Author: Gay Cheney
Publisher: Dance Horizons Book
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Presents an overview of the history of modern dance; discusses basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography; and includes illustrated exercises designed to help the dancer learn to use his or her body more effectively.
Publisher: Dance Horizons Book
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Presents an overview of the history of modern dance; discusses basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography; and includes illustrated exercises designed to help the dancer learn to use his or her body more effectively.
Modern Bodies
Author: Julia L. Foulkes
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862029
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862029
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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
Author: John Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871270016
Category : Addresses, essays, lectures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871270016
Category : Addresses, essays, lectures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Harnessing the Wind
Author: Jan Erkert
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736044875
Category : Modern dance
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736044875
Category : Modern dance
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Modern Dance, Negro Dance
Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816637362
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816637362
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
Ballet & Modern Dance
Author: Jack Anderson
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
ISBN: 9780916622435
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Traces the history of dance from the ancient world to the present and discusses the contributions of influential dancers and choreographers.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
ISBN: 9780916622435
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Traces the history of dance from the ancient world to the present and discusses the contributions of influential dancers and choreographers.
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
Author: Joshua Legg
Publisher: Dance Horizons
ISBN: 9780871273253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. --
Publisher: Dance Horizons
ISBN: 9780871273253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. --
Merce Cunningham
Author: Roger Copeland
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415965750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415965750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Vision of Modern Dance
Author: Jean Morrison Brown
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A collection of writings by 21 major figures in modern dance.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A collection of writings by 21 major figures in modern dance.
New Dance
Author: Doris Humphrey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"This collection of essays, lectures and notes reveals the inspiration behind the creation of the choreography of modern dance founder Doris Humphrey. The fundamentals of her composition: form, content and execution are expressed in her own spirited words, providing an intimate look at the creative process"--Dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"This collection of essays, lectures and notes reveals the inspiration behind the creation of the choreography of modern dance founder Doris Humphrey. The fundamentals of her composition: form, content and execution are expressed in her own spirited words, providing an intimate look at the creative process"--Dust jacket.