UID:
almahu_9949383616202882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780429855955
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0429855958
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9780429457845
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0429457847
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042985594X
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9780429855931
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0429855931
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9780429855948
Content:
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H'Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers' responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Dance, modernism, and modernity; References; 2 Dance and modernism: A historiographical consideration; Dance history, historiography, and modern dance; 'To the quality of ubiquity I make no claim': writers on dance in the early years of the twentieth century; 'At the turning point of the new dance': writers, critics and dancers writing dance history, 1920-1930
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'I personally prefer the historians': critics and dancers on dance history in the 1930s'Then and now': modernism and modernity in dance histories of the 1940s; Historiographical process in the first half of the twentieth century; Notes; References; 3 Dancing and modernism: Natural dancing and modernity; Introduction; Dancers and writers; Being natural and being modern; Dance, nature, and science; Notes; References; 4 Dance and modernism: Transnational currents; National and international discourses of dance and modernism; Exotic dance and transnational flows; Notes; References
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5 Wassily Kandinsky, dance, and interdisciplinary modernism 1908-1914Introduction; Kandinsky's ideas and practice, and his Munich years; Kandinsky and dance; Interdisciplinarity and collaboration; Abstraction, spirituality and dance; The Yellow Sound: a stage composition; Conclusion: dance of the future; Notes; References; 6 Breaking into the modernist world: Akarova and Margaret Morris; Morris and Akarova, brief biographies; Modern dance and Greek antiquity; The Margaret Morris Club and London modernists; Akarova and the Belgian avant-garde; Morris's and Akarova's choreography; Conclusion
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NotesReferences; 7 MODERNIST dance, war, and modernity: Isadora Duncan and La Marseillaise; Dancing La Marseillaise; Ritual and the expressive power of Duncan's performance; La Marseillaise and gender ideologies; La Marseillaise, propaganda and progressive politics; Notes; References; 8 The new ballet: Kurt Jooss, ballet, and modernity; Introduction; Kurt Jooss and his companies 1927-1947: a brief historical synopsis; Tanztheater; A technique for a dance of the future; Development of the Ballets Jooss repertoire; Conclusion: Pandora: 'now we are moving to something quite new'; Notes
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780429855948
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781138313033
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1138313033
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429457845.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429457845
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