Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley

Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity, by examining the way in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781138313033
• ISBN-10: 1138313033
• Artikelnr.: 58055227

Autorenporträt

Ramsay Burt is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University, UK. He is director of the university's Dance, Drama and Performance Studies Research Institute. His publications include The Male Dancer (1995), Alien Bodies (1997), Judson Dance Theater (2006), and Ungoverning Dance (2016). Michael Huxley is Emeritus Reader in Dance and former director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent book is The Dancer's World 1920-1945: Modern Dancers and Their Practices Reconsidered (2015), and he has been published in dance periodicals such as Dance Chronicle, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices , and Discourses in Dance.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Foreword - Claire Warden Acknowledgements PART I 1.
Introduction: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity 2. Dance and Modernism: A
Historiographical Consideration 3. Dance and Modernism: Natural Dancing and
Modernity 4. Dance and Modernism: Transnational Currents PART II 5. Wassily
Kandinsky, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Modernism 1908-1914 6. Breaking
into the Male Modernist World: Akarova and Margaret Morris 7. Modernist
Dance, War, and Modernity: Isadora Duncan and La Marseillaise 8. The New
Ballet: Kurt Jooss, Ballet and Modernity 9. The New Ballet: Antony Tudor's
Jardin aux Lilas and the Loss of Gesture 10. Hanya Holm: a Modernist
Pioneer 11. Modernity, Ritual and Diasporic Culture: Katherine Dunham and
Berto Pasuka Afterword Index