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The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique
by Renata Celichowska  Publisher Comments The Hawkins dance technique embodies the philosophy that dance should integrate the body, mind, and soul while always following scientific principles. This system of dance training -- an approach that continues to influence dancers around the world -- is...
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The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
by Jean Brown Publisher Comments 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...
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The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss
by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn Publisher Comments The book weaves together the connections among these extraordinary artists, "The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany" contains interviews, personal recollections and translations from German publications....
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Jose Limon and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance with DVD
by Patricia Seed Publisher Comments Jose Limon (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by the New York Times as the finest male dancer of his time when the Jose Limon Dance Company debuted in 1947, Limon was also a renowned choreographer...
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Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
by Sally Banes Publisher Comments Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including...
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Electric Salome: Loie's Fullers Performance of Modernism
by Rhonda Garelick Review Garelick's extraordinarily astute analysis of Loie Fuller, surely one of the richest performers of her age, draws on insights from postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, the history of science, queer studies, as well as the history of modern...
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Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
by Ramsay Burt Publisher Comments Blurring the conventional distinction between modern dance and ballet, African American dance, gymnastics and dancing as popular entertainment, i Alien Bodies /i looks at the way the dance of the 1920s and 1930s mediated the experience of modernity...
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William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies
by William Forsythe Publisher Comments The American-born choreographer William Forsythe--who was the Director of the celebrated Frankfurt Ballet from 1984-2004 and now heads his own Frankfurt-based independent ensemble, The Forsythe Company--is recognized internationally as one of the world's...
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Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street y
by Naomi M Jackson Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of the 92nd Street Y and its major influence on 20th-century American culture....
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Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance
by Marcia B Siegel Publisher Comments Advance Praise for "Howling Near Heaven" "It's damn good. I recommend it." ---Paul Taylor "Wordcraft meets dancecraft on equal terms in this unique biography. Siegel illuminates the life of a driven dancemaker by making the dances tell the tale. An...
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Choreographing Difference
by Ann Cooper Albright Publisher Comments Feminist theory illuminates the radical cultural work of contemporary dance....
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Days on Earth: The Dance of Doris Humphrey
by Marcia B Siegel Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, "Days on Earth"--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia...
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Stepping Left - PB
by Ellen Graff Publisher Comments ""Stepping Left" is the first extended study of the origins, development, influence, and legacy of the radical dance movement that emerged in the United States during the 1930s. Quite simply, this book will change how the history of American dance in...
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Mark Morris's L'Allegro, Il Pensoroso, Ed Il Moderato: A Celebration
by Jeffrey Escoffier Publisher Comments Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur, " "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling,...
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The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique: A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
by Alwin Nikolais Publisher Comments The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique provides the definite resource for understanding and practicing the influential dance technique developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. The Nikolais/Louis technique is presented in a...
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Kazuo Ohno's World
by Kazuo Ohno Publisher Comments Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance....
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Being Watched Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books October Books)
by Carrie Lambert-beatty Publisher Comments In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body--stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts...
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The Modern Dance
by Selma Jeanne Cohen Synopsis Seven Statements of Belief: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor...
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
by Eric Franklin Publisher Comments These 361 exercises teach dancers to tap into the power of imagery to improve posture and alignment, release excess tension, and create better movement....
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New Dance: Writings on Modern Dance
by Doris Humphrey Publisher Comments A guided tour into the world of modern dance, this collection of essays, transcribed talks, and notes reveals the guiding principles of American modern dance founder Doris Humphrey. The main elements of composition—including form, content, and...
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