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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825612003321

Autore

Banes Sally

Titolo

Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / / Sally Banes ; with a new introduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press

Scranton, Pa., : Distributed by Harper and Row, 1987

ISBN

1-283-14794-7

9786613147943

0-8195-7180-6

0-585-37111-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxix, 270 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Wesleyan paperback

Disciplina

792.8

793.32

Soggetti

Modern dance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition; Introduction to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition; Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance; Simone Forti: Dancing as if Newborn; Simone Forti, Animal Stories; Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial; Yvonne Rainer, Chart from ""A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A""; Steve Paxton: Physical Things; Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover; Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity; Trisha Brown, Skymap

David Gordon: The Ambiguities David Gordon, Response; Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance; Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance; Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing; Lucinda Childs, Street Dance; Meredith Monk: Homemade Metaphors; Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice; Kenneth King: Being Dancing Beings; Kenneth King, from Print-Out; Douglas Dunn: Cool Symmetries; Douglas Dunn, ""Talking Dancing""; The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance; The Grand Union, Q & A; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

A dance critic's essays on post-modern dance.