Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism / Sally Banes.

Author
Banes, Sally [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1994.
Description
xv, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Writing criticism/history. Jill Johnston : signaling through the flames ; Working and dancing : a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" / with Noël Carroll Criticism as ethnography ; On your fingertips : writing dance criticism ; Power and the dancing body
    • The Euro-American Avant-Garde. Balanchine and black dance ; An introduction to the Ballets Suédois ; Soirée de Paris ; Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos ; Merce Cunningham's Story ; Cunningham and Duchamp / with Noël Carroll
    • The African-American connection. To the beat, y'all : breaking is hard to do ; Breakdancing : a reporter's story ; Lock steady ; Critic's choice : breakdancing ; Breaking ; A house is not a home ; Breaking changing ; The pleasin' in teasin' ; The Moscow Charleston : black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union
    • Other subversions : politics and popular dance. Stepping high : Fred Astaire's drunk dances ; The men at John Allen's dance house ; Red shoes : the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s.
    • Postmodern dance : from the sixties to the nineties. Judson rides again! ; Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater ; Vital signs : Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective ; Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon : notes from a journal ; Dancing on the edge ; "Drive," she said : the dance of Molissa Fenley ; Self-rising choreography ; Transparent living ; No more ordinary bodies ; Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance ; Pointe of departure ; Classical brinksmanship : Karole Armitage and Michael Clark ; Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe : postmodern dance revisited ; Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music : vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography ; La onda próxima : nueva Latina dance ; Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties / with Noël Carroll ; Dancing in leaner times ; Going solo.
    ISBN
    • 0819552666 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780819552662 ((alk. paper))
    • 0819562688 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780819562685 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    93008225
    OCLC
    28065035
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