05411oam 2200541Ma 450 991046572960332120190225021423.01-315-53876-81-134-95580-41-134-95573-19780415970198(CKB)3710000000648393(EBL)4511930(MiAaPQ)EBC4511930(Au-PeEL)EBL4511930(CaPaEBR)ebr11207999(OCoLC)950463819(OCoLC)1000033235(OCoLC)993765544(OCoLC)1066418862(OCoLC-P)1000033235(FlBoTFG)9781315538761(EXLCZ)99371000000064839320170807d2005 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Nikolais/Louis dance technique a philosophy and method of modern dance /by Alwin Nikolais & Murray LouisNew York Routledge20051 online resource (393 pages) illustrations0-415-97020-2 0-415-97019-9 Biography of Alwin Nikolais -- Biography of Murray Louis -- Introduction -- SECTION I Definitions -- Basic Dance -- Vision of a New Technique -- Decentralization -- Grain -- Gravity and Verticality -- The Psyche -- Stasis -- Dynamics and Energies -- Sensory Perception -- Movement Range -- Three Conditions of Energy -- SECTION II Creating: Improvisation and Composition -- Defining Improvisation -- Gestalt -- Nature and Art -- The Language of Criticism -- Composition -- SECTION III The Class Manual -- Introduction to the Classes -- The Body as an Instrument -- The Dimensional Concept -- Alignment -- The Stretches -- Up and Down-Vertical-The Plié -- Across the Floor -- Week 1: Locomotion and Dimensions -- Week 2: Isolating Body Parts (Isolations) -- Week 3: Body Parts (Continued) -- Week 4: Levels -- Week 5: The Joints and Joint Action -- Week 6: Rotary Action -- Week 7: Grain and Density -- Week 8: Gravity and Upward Willpower -- Week 9: Swing, Centripetal, and Centrifugal Momentum -- Week 10: Undercurves -- Week 11: Overcurves and Mirror Action -- Major Principles of Dance (The Big Four) -- Week 12: Space: Volume and Peripheral -- Week 13: Time -- Week 14: Shape -- Motion -- Week 15: Motion -- Week 16: Abstraction -- Week 17: Review Technique -- Week 18: Realism to Abstraction -- Week 19: Diagonals -- Week 20: Circles -- Week 21: Falls -- Week 22: Suspension Points -- Week 23: Percussion and Prop Extension -- Week 24: Lyricism -- Adjuncts to Choreographic and Performing Skills -- Week 25: The Showing: Performance -- Consonance and Summation -- A Brief Review.AnnotationIn this study, Nyla Ali Khan focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four contemporary Anglophone writers: V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, Khan offers a critical dialogue between these works and the contemporary history they encounter, using history to interrogate fiction and using fiction to think through historical issues. In doing so, Khan argues that in the mixed, heterogeneous space of transnationalism, cultural and linguistic authenticity is a pipe dream. The binary structures created by the colonial encounter undergo a process of dialectical interplay in which each culture or language makes incursions into the other. Some of these structures are as follows: black-white, primitive-savage, self-other, silent-articulate, rational ruler and irrational ruled. These categories generate a dichotomy that creates the perception that a people have of themselves and their political and social relationships. Their recognition of this dialogic interplay of community and place becomes the basis for strategies that enable transnational and postcolonial writers to revise dogmatic categories. Despite all their differences, the works of these authors delineate the asymmetrical relations of colonialism and the aftermath of this phenomenon as it is manifested across the globe in this day and age. Khan shows, for instance, how Naipaul articulates a sensibility created by multilayered identities and the remapping of old imperial landscapes, in the process suggesting a new dynamic of power relations in which politics and selfhood, empire and psychology, prove to be profoundly interrelated; how Rushdie encourages a nationalist self-imagining and a rewriting of history that incorporates significant cultural, religious, and linguistic differences into our sense of identity; how Ghosh is critical of the putative cultural and religious necessity to forge a unified nationalist identity, arguing that no single theory sufficiently frames the multiple inheritances of present diasporic subjectivities; and how Desai seeks to imagine a responsible form of artistic, social, and political agency.Modern danceModern dancePhilosophyElectronic books.Modern dance.Modern dancePhilosophy.792.801Nikolais Alwin946453Louis Murray946454OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910465729603321The Nikolais2138297UNINA