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Directing the dance legacy of Doris Humphrey : the creative impulse of reconstruction / Lesley Main.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Main, Lesley.
- Series:
- Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
- Studies in dance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958--Criticism and interpretation.
- Humphrey, Doris.
- Modern dance--Production and direction.
- Modern dance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 191 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looks inside four of Doris Humphrey's major choreographic works--Water study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With my red fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)--with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre. [The author] stresses to the reader the need to balance respect for classical works from the modern dance repertory with the necessity for fresh directorial strategies, to balance traditional and creative practices for the re-constructor.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Negotiating a living past
- Part One : Chasing the ephemeral : Reconstruction, re-creation, reinvention
- History in the making
- Theatrical parallels
- Battling Beckett
- Part Two : Exploring the creative impulse
- Water Study : Performance history
- Identifying and exploring the evidence
- Interpreting from the present
- Catching the undertow: The dancing of Water Study
- Passacaglia : Performance history
- A musical exploration of choreographic structure
- Centennial celebrations and beyond
- With My Red Fires : Performance history
- Contemporary perspective
- Evidence from the source
- Reshaping the matriarch
- Creative possibility
- The shakers : Performance history
- Transmission strategies
- Crossing the line
- Navigating narrative
- Epilogue: Dancing the past tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613532237
- 9781280128356
- 1280128356
- 9780299285838
- 0299285839
- OCLC:
- 791642842
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