In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (18721929), the Ballets Russes radically transformed the nature of balletits subject matter, movement idiom, choreographic style, stage space, music, ...
Since its inception fifty years ago the New York City Ballet has been a vital force in American dance and an essential component of American cultural life. As the vehicle for the development and expression of George Balanchine's immensely influential artistic vision -- as well as that of other eminent choreographers -- the company has created a ...
Jose Limon divulges the story of his life. Although these memoirs were interrupted by Limon's death in 1972, they sufficiently detail his tragic childhood, his discovery of dance, and his apprenticeship under Doris Humphrey.
Lynn Garafola has written some of the most influential historical studies and criticism in the field of dance. Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance is a selection of her essays and reviews that together document the extraordinary transformation of dance, especially ballet, since the early 20th century. Part I, "The Ballet Russes and Beyond," ...
Both as a dancer and choreographer, Jos Limon electrified audiences from the 1930s to the 1960s. This memoir, unfinished at the time of Limon's death in 1972, finally sees the light of day.
In the early twentieth century no American choreographer was more famous than Ned Wayburn. His chorus lines enlivened dozens of shows, as did his dance routines, which mined virtually every movement idiom of the day from tap, toe, ballet, and ballroom to acrobatic and musical comedy styles. He invented the "Ziegfeld Walk" (so his show girls could ...
Centering on Ninette de Valois's formative years as a choreographer and a shaper of British ballet, this book closely examines her 1934 ballet Bar aux Folies-Bergere, which was inspired by the famous Edouard Manet painting and created for Marie Rambert's comapny, then known as the Ballet Club.
This pioneering volume sheds important new light on neglected aspects of dance in the 1930s and the early 1940s--from the revolutionary dance movement that led to the founding of the New Dance Group, to the rediscovery of Africa and the "black Atlantic" by African-American choreographers such as Asadata Dafora and Katherine Dunham, to the ...
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