Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism
A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown :
Wesleyan University Press
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38559560*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; I. Writing Criticism/History; 1. Jill Johnston: Signaling Through the Flames; 2. Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley's "What Is Going on in a Dance?" (with Noël Carroll); 3. Criticism as Ethnography; 4. On Your Fingertips: Writing Dance Criticism; 5. Power and the Dancing Body; II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde; 6. Balanchine and Black Dance; 7. An Introduction to the Ballets Suédois; 8. Soirée de Paris; 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's Ballet Manifestos; 10. Merce Cunningham's Story.
- 11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll)III. The African-American Connection; 12. To the Beat, Y'All: Breaking Is Hard to Do; 13. Breakdancing: A Reporter's Story; 14. Lock Steady; 15. Critic's Choice: Breakdancing; 16. Breaking; 17. A House Is Not a Home; 18. Breaking Changing; 19. The Pleasin' in Teasin'; 20. The Moscow Charleston: Black Jazz Dancers in the Soviet Union; IV. Other Subversions: Politics and Popular Dance; 21. Stepping High: Fred Astaire's Drunk Dances; 22. The Men at John Allen's Dance House; 23. Red Shoes: The Workers' Dance League of the 1930s.
- V. Postmodern Dance: From the Sixties to the Nineties24. Judson Rides Again!; 25. Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater; 26. Vital Signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in Perspective; 27. Meredith Monk and the Making of Chacon: Notes from a Journal; 28. Dancing on the Edge; 29. "Drive," She Said: The Dance of Molissa Fenley; 30. Self-Rising Choreography; 31. Transparent Living; 32. No More Ordinary Bodies; 33. Happily Ever After? The Postmodern Fairytale and the New Dance; 34. Pointe of Departure; 35. Classical Brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark.
- 36. Terpsichore in Sneakers, High Heels, Jazz Shoes, and On Pointe: Postmodern Dance Revisited37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the Music: Vicissitudes of Collaboration in American Postmodern Choreography; 38. La Onda Próxima: Nueva Latina Dance; 39. Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties (with Noël Carroll); 40. Dancing in Leaner Times; 41. Going Solo; Notes; Index; About the Author.
