Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism / Sally Banes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banes, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ballet.

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

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 412 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing

Contents:

Cover; Writing Doncing in the Age of Posfmodernism; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; I. Writing Criticism / History; I. Jill Johnston: Signaling Through the Flames; 2. Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley's ""What Is Going on in a Dance?"" (with Noël Carroll); 3. Criticism as Ethnography; 4. On Your Fingertips: Writing Dance Criticism; 5. Power and the Dancing Body; II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde; 6. Balanchine and Black Dance; 7. An Introduction to the Ballets Suédois; 8. Soirée de Paris; 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's Ballet Manifestos

10. Merce Cunningham's Story11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll); III. The African-Ameritan Connection; 12. To the Beat, Y'AII: Breaking Is Hard to Do; 13. Breakdancing: A Reporter's Story; 14. Lock Steady; 15. Critic's Choice: Breakdancing; 16. Breaking; 17. A House Is Not a Home; 18. Breaking Changing; 19. The Pleasin' in Teasin'; 20. The Moscow Charleston: Black Jazz Dancers in the Soviet Union; IV. Other Subversions: Politics and Popular Dance; 21. Stepping High: Fred Astaire's Drunk Dances; 22. The Men at John Allen's Dance House

23. Red Shoes: The Workers' Dance League of the 1930's V. Postmodern Dance: From the Sixties to the Nineties; 24. Judson Rides Again!; 25. Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater; 26. Vital Signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in Perspective; 27. Meredith Monk and the Making of Chacon: Notes from a Journal; 28. Dancing on the Edge; 29. ""Drive,"" She Said: The Dance of Molissa Fenley; 30. Self-Rising Choreography; 31. Transparent Living; 32. No More Ordinary Bodies; 33. Happily Ever After? The Postmodern Fairytale and the New Dance; 34. Pointe of Departure

35. Classical Brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark 36. Terpsichore in Sneakers, High Heels, Jazz Shoes, and On Pointe: Postmodern Dance Revisited; 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the Music: Vicissitudes of Collaboration in American Postmodern Choreography; 38. La Onda Próxima: Nueva Latina Dance; 39. Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties (with Noël Carroll); 40. Dancing in Leaner Times; 41. Going Solo; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index.

ISBN:

9780819571816

0819571814

OCLC:

767498481