The modern dance / by John Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Co. : Dance Horizons, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Martin, arguably the first modern dance critic in America and trail-blazer for the art form's validity in the public sector, first published The Modern Dance in 1933 and claimed it to be ""perhaps the first attempt...to analyze the American modern dance."" The book is the text of four lectures delivered by Martin at the New School for Social Research in New York City (1931-1932) on the dance form as a philosophic perspective.Certain common principles underlie the many systems and methods of modern dancing, and these texts endeavor to discover a full explanation of the

Contents:

pt. 1. Characteristics of the modern dance

pt. 2. Form

pt. 3. Technique

pt. 4. The dance and the other arts.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-87127-272-5

OCLC:

437069335