The body is a clear place and other statements on dance / Erick Hawkins ; foreword by Alan Kriegsman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkins, Erick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Philosophy.

Dance.

Modern dance--Philosophy.

Modern dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 154 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Pennington, NJ : Princeton Book Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Body is a Clear Place is a collection of ten intelligent, lyrical essays that serve as a testament to Erick Hawkins' long career in dance. The last two essays were written especially for this volume while the first eight essays were collected from speeches, statements and articles Hawkins has written. The essays are framed by a foreword written by Alan Kriegsman.Essay titles are: The Rite in Theatre; Theatre Structure for a New Dance Poetry; Modern Dance as a Voyage of Discovery; Questions and Answers; The Body is a Clear Place; My Love Affair with Music; Inmost Heaven,

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 The Rite in Theater; 2 Theatre Structure for a New Dance Poetry; 3 Modern Dance as a Voyage of Discovery; 4 Questions and Answers; 5 The Body is a Clear Place; 6 My Love Affair with Music; 7 Inmost Heaven, or The Normative Ideal; 8 Dance as a Metaphor of Existence; 9 The Principle of a Thing; 10 Art in Its Second Function; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154).

ISBN:

0-87127-271-7

OCLC:

437069333