The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original essays.
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This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these orignal essays. This revised edition includes new selections by Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Alvin Ailey, and Mark Morris. Includes background information on each dancer, historic photographs, and a comprehensive bibliography. Booknews Modern dance continues its 75-year-old legacy of innovation in integrating meaning and movement--reflected here through background narrative, statements by and historic photographs of its originators. The forerunners are represented (e.g. Duncan, Shawn), as well as the four pioneers (Graham, Humphrey, Weidman, and Holm); the second generation (Cunningham, Ailey); new rebels (Pilobolus, Tharp); and diverse post-modern visions. Includes a videography. Supplants the 1979 edition. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefacePt. 1The ForerunnersExcerpts From Her Writings7Light And The Dance11The Dance As Life Experience21Constants - What Constitutes A Work Of Art In The Dance27Stage Dance - Stage Dancer33Pt. 2The Four PioneersGraham 193749What A Dancer Thinks About55Random Remarks65Hanya Speaks71Pt. 3The Second GenerationYou Have To Love Dancing To Stick To It89A Little House To Understand And Protect It93On Dance97The Rebel And The Bourgeois107Excerpts From "Nik: A Documentary"113Back to Basics123It's About Dance131Pt. 4The New RebelsThe Process Is The Purpose141We Don't Talk About It. We Engage In It149The Mind Is A Muscle157Talking With Pilobolus167Dialogue On Dance177Don't Tell Me Who I Am187Tank Dive193Pt. 5The New VisionIntroductionA Passion for Music203Post-modernism?: Excerpts from writings by Mary Fulkerson, Molissa Fenley, Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, Garth Fagan, Lucinda Childs, Eiko and Koma, Deborah Hay, and Jowale Willa Jo Zollar209Selected Bibliography217Selected Videography238Index241
\ BooknewsModern dance continues its 75-year-old legacy of innovation in integrating meaning and movement--reflected here through background narrative, statements by and historic photographs of its originators. The forerunners are represented (e.g. Duncan, Shawn), as well as the four pioneers (Graham, Humphrey, Weidman, and Holm); the second generation (Cunningham, Ailey); new rebels (Pilobolus, Tharp); and diverse post-modern visions. Includes a videography. Supplants the 1979 edition. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
