Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism /
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Hanover, N.H. :
University Press of New England,
1994
Hanover, N.H. : c1994 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Nineties. 24. 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 Revisited. 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the Music: Vicissitudes of Collaboration in American Postmodern Choreography. 38. La Onda Proxima: Nueva Latina Dance
- 39. Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties / Sally Banes and Noel Carroll. 40. Dancing in Leaner Times. 41. Going Solo
- 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?" / Sally Banes and Noel 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 Suedois. 8. Soiree de Paris. 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's Ballet Manifestos. 10. Merce Cunningham's Story. 11. Cunningham and Duchamp / Sally Banes and Noel 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