Movable pillars : organizing dance, 1956-1978 / Katja Kolcio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolcio, Katja Pylyshenko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dance.

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

Dance companies.

Dance teachers--United States--Interviews.

Dance teachers.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2010]

Summary:

How six professional dance organizations transformed the landscape of modern dance scholarship Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This surge was reflected in the emergence of six key dance organizations: the American Dance Guild, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Dance Therapy Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, the Dance Critics Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars. Kolcio argues that their founding between the years 1956 and 1978 marked a new period of collective action in dance and is directly related to the inclusion of moving bodies in scholarly research and the ways in which dance studies interfaces with other fields such as feminist studies, critical research methods, and emancipatory education. An impeccable work of archival scholarship and interpretive history, Movable Pillars features nineteen interviews with dance luminaries who were intimately involved in the early years of each group. This is the first book to focus on the founding of these professional organizations and constitutes a major contribution to the understanding of the development of dance in American higher education.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

Modern dance is a point of view

Precedents: Dance as Education, art as Cultue

Dance as education

Dance as art

The art/education dichotomy

Dance as cultural studies

Art and the politics of knowledge

The post war climate

Performing a public voice: defining dance, defining dace research 1956-1970

Defining research in dance

Current Contexts: Interdisciplinarity and the Problem of Practice

Its own intellectual tradition

Part II Telling the Times: Interviews

American Dance Guild (1956)

Carolyn Bilderback

Carole I. Binswanger

Joseph Gifford

Fannie Isquith

Erna C. Lindner

Bernice Rosen

Congress on Research in Dance (1965)

Jeannette S. Roosevelt

Patricia A. Rowe

American Dance Therapy Association (1966)

Sharon Chaiklin

Beth Kalish-Weiss

Catherine Hamilton Pasternak

Claire Schmais

American College Dance Festival Association (1973)

Jeanne Beaman

Adam Pinsker

Dance Critics Association

Deborah Jowitt

Marcia B. Siegel

Society of Dance History Scholars (1978)

Selma Jeanne Cohen

Constance Kreemer

Genevieve Oswald.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780819569110

0819569119

OCLC:

310715757