Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism / Sally Banes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banes, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet--United States--History--20th century.

Ballet.

Dance--United States--History--20th century.

Dance.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : Wesleyan Univer University Press of New England, 1994.

Summary:

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

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 Noel 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 Ballet Suedois

Soiree de Paris

Kasyan Goleizovsky's Ballet Manifests

Merce Cunnighams Story

Cunnigham and Duchamp with Noel 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 Subcersions: 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 1930's

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 from a Journal

Dancing on the Edge

"Drive," She Said: The dance of Molissa Fenely

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 Proxima: Nueva Latina Dance

Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties

Dancing in Leaner Times

Going Solo.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0819552666

0819562688

OCLC:

28065035