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Banes Sally |
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Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism [[electronic resource] /] / Sally Banes |
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[Middletown, Conn.], : Wesleyan University Press |
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Hanover, : University Press of New England, c1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 412 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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Ballet - United States - History - 20th century |
Dance - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Writing Doncing in the Age of Posfmodernism; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; I. Writing Criticism / History; I. 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 Story11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll); III. The African-Ameritan Connection; 12. To the Beat, Y'AII: 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 1930's V. Postmodern Dance: From the Sixties to the Nineties; 24. Judson Rides Again!; 25. Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater; 26. |
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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 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing |
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