Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / Sally Banes ; photos. by Robert Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banes, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

Contents:

Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance

Dancing as if Newborn / Simone Forti Forti, Simone

Animal Stories / Simone Forti Forti, Simone

The Aesthetics of Denial / Yvonne Rainer Rainer, Yvonne

Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity

Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A"

Physical Things / Steve Paxton Paxton, Steve

Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover

Gravity and Levity / Trisha Brown Brown, Trisha

Trisha Brown, Skymap

The Ambiguities / David Gordon Gordon, David

David Gordon, Response

The Cosmic Dance / Deborah Hay Hay, Deborah

Deborah Hay, Excerpts from the Grand Dance

The Act of Seeing / Lucinda Childs Childs, Lucinda

Lucinda Childs, Street Dance

Homemade Metaphors / Meredith Monk Monk, Meredith

Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice

Being Dancing Beings / Kenneth King King, Kenneth

Kenneth King, from Print-Out

Cool Symmetries / Douglas Dunn Dunn, Douglas

Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing"

The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance

The Grand Union, Q&A.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [268]-275.

ISBN:

0395282128 :

OCLC:

9749437