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Now expanded and updated, this second edition of the original bestseller is an engaging interpretation of dance history--from the Ancient Greeks and ... More

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Setting dance within a cultural context that is both understandable and interesting, this insightful reference captures the true art form of dance ... More

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Whether as performers or as spectators, more people enjoy dance today than ever before. Its extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and ... More

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A groundbreaking study of the 92nd Street Y and its major influence on 20th-century American culture.

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This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. ... More

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The private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance history

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Treating modern dance as a self-renewing art, Anderson follows its changes over the decades and discusses the visionary choreographers (some of whose ... More

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..". almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." --Signs ..". [an] important step... in the ... More

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Modern dance was a movement that began at the turn of the 20th century when American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis broke ... More

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Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that ... More

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The relationship between the practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. Dancers, ... More

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In "The Tail of the Dragon," Marcia B. Siegel and Nathaniel Tileston track the evolution of new dance in New York during the rich and crucial ... More

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A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing

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Alien Bodies is a fascinating examination of dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging across ballet and ... More

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How American modern dance contributed to aesthetic and social change in the 1950s

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This edited collection illuminates what made dance modern in keeping with the spirit of developments in science and other artforms in the early ... More

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When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime ... More

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The first in-depth study of the modern dance world of the 1940s and 1950s

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Vision of Modern Dance comprises the selecte d writings of 33 important American modern dancers, from Isa dora Duncan through Martha Graham to Trisha ... More

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Whether as performers or spectators, more people enjoy dance today than ever before. Its extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and avant ... More

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"The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson ... More

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Beginning with an overview of the history of dance to the history of dance to the innovations of the Ballet Russe, Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Martha ... More

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The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, ... More

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