The vision of modern dance : in the words of its creators /

The essential thinking of the most prominent exponents of modern dance.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Jean Morrison, Mindlin, Naomi, 1938-, Woodford, Charles Humphrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hightstown, N.J. : Princeton Book Co., [1998]
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forerunners: Excerpts from her writings / Isadora Duncan
  • Light and the dance / Loie Fuller
  • Dance as life experience / Ruth St. Denis
  • Constants-what constitutes a work of art in the dance / Ted Shawn
  • Stage dance-stage dancer / Mary Wigman
  • Four pioneers: Graham 1937 / Martha Graham
  • What a dancer thinks about / Doris Humphrey
  • Random remarks / Charles Weidman
  • Hanya speaks / Hanya Holm
  • Second generation: You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham
  • Little house to understand and protect it / Erick Hawkins
  • On dance / Jose Limon
  • Rebel and the bourgeois / Anna Sokolow
  • Excerpts from "Nik: a documentary" / Alwin Nikolais
  • Back to basics / Paul Taylor
  • It's about dance / Alvin Ailey
  • New rebels: Process is the purpose / Anna Halprin
  • We don't talk about it. We engage in it. / Judith Dunn
  • Mind is a muscle / Yvonne Rainer
  • Talking with Pilobolus / Pilobulus
  • Dialogue on dance / Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn
  • Don't tell me who I am / Rod Rodgers
  • Tank dive / Twyla Tharp
  • New vision / Passion for music / Mark Morris
  • Post-modernism?
  • Excerpts from writings / Mary Fulkerson, Molissa Fenley. Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, Garth Fagan, Lucinda Childs, Eiko and Koma, Deborah Hay, and Jowale Willa Jo Zollar.