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The body eclectic : evolving practices in dance training / edited by Melanie Bales, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Study and teaching.
- Dance.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- This rich collection of essays and interviews explores modern-dance technique training from the past fifty years. Focusing on the culture of dance, editors Melanie Bales and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol examine choreographic process and style, dancer agency and participation in the creative process, and changes in the role and purpose of training. Bringing recent writings on dance into dialogue with dance practice, The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training asks readers to consider the relationship between training practices and choreographic style and content. The contributors explore how technique training both guides and reflects the art of dance.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Deconstruction and Bricolage, and Other Themes of the Post-Judson Era / Melanie Bales 1
- Part i Bricolage
- 1 A Dancing Dialectic / Melanie Bales 10
- 2 A New York Dancer / Veronica Dittman 22
- 3 Training as the Medium Through Which / Melanie Bales 28
- 4 A Dance-Musician's Perspective: An Interview with Natalie Gilbert / Melanie Bales 43
- 5 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed / Joshua Monten 52
- 6 Ballet for the Post-Judson Dancer / Melanie Bales 68
- Part ii Deconstruction
- 7 Somatics: An Interview with Martha Myers / Rebecca Nettl-Fiol 89
- 8 First It Was Dancing / Rebecca Nettl-Fiol 101
- 9 Re-Locating Technique / Wendell Beavers 126
- 10 Teaching Alignment / Glenna Batson 134
- 11 Falling, Releasing, and Post-Judson Dance / Melanie Bales 153
- Part iii Training stories
- 12 Training Stories
- Chris Aiken 170
- David Dorfman 176
- Kathleen Fisher 184
- Karen Graham 188
- Mark Haim 193
- Angie Hauser 197
- Sara Hook 205
- Irene Hultman 210
- Stephen Koester 215
- Ralph Lemon 219
- Bebe Miller 224
- Tere O'Connor 229
- Cynthia Oliver 231
- Janet Panetta 236
- Kraig Patterson 240
- Shelley Washington 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252032622
- 0252032624
- 9780252074899
- 0252074890
- OCLC:
- 167517330
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