Reinventing dance in the 1960s : everything was possible / edited by Sally Banes with the assistance of Andrea Harris ; with a foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Banes, Sally.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance--History.

Modern dance.

History.

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]

Summary:

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume an impressive range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin's West Coast experiments, the innovative Judson Dance Theater, avant-garde dance subcultures in New York, the work of Meredith Monk and Kenneth King, and parallel movements in Britain. The contributors include Janice Ross, Leslie Satin, Noël Carroll, Gus Solomons jr., Deborah Jowitt, Stephanie Jordan, Joan Acocella, and Sally Banes.

Contents:

Gulliver's hamburger: Defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant-Garde / Sally Banes

Anna Halprin and the 1960s: acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / Janice Ross

James Waring and the Judson Dance Theater: influences, intersections, and divergences / Leslie Satin

The philosophy of art history, dance, and the 1960s / Noël Carroll

Dance quote unquote / Jill Johnston

Dancing in New York: the 1960s / Gus Solomons, Jr.

Monk and King: the sixties kids / Deborah Jowitt

One route from ballet to postmodern / Wendy Perron

Radical discoveries: pioneering postmodern dance in Britain / Stephanie Jordan

Ballet Review's beginnings: an interview with Arlene Croce / Joan Acocella and Sally Banes

PASTForward choreographers' statements / Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Simone Forti, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0299180107

029918014X

OCLC:

50810126