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Looking at contemporary dance [electronic resource] : a guide for the internet age / Marc Raymond Strauss with Myron Howard Nadel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Strauss, Marc.
Contributor:
Nadel, Myron Howard.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Modern dance--History.
Modern dance.
Dancers--Biography.
Dancers.
Modern dance--Video catalogs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 p.)
Place of Publication:
Hightstown, N.J. : Princeton Book Co., 2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, [this history] covers more than 110 choreographers, companies, institutions, and dancers from both modern dance and ballet, and from around the world. Readers can view clips of dances from over 220 Internet search addresses that illustrate the text. Videographies are provided at the end of each chapter for viewing complete dances and documentaries."--P. [4] of cover.
Contents:
Moving into the 20th century : 1811-1900. François Delsarte
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Rudolf Laban
Loïe Fuller
Serge Diaghilev
Isadora Duncan
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
Michel Fokine
Mary Wigman
Vaslav Nijinsky
Asadata Dafora
Michio Ito
Hanya Holm
Martha Graham and Louis Horst
The era's influences : philosophical, psychological and sociological
Doris Humphrey
Léonide Massine
The 20th century : 1900 to 1910. George Balanchine
Frederick Ashton
Kurt Jooss
Agnes de Mille and Antony Tudor
José Limón
Birgit Cullberg
Erick Hawkins
Katherine Dunham
1910 to 1920. Anna Sokolow
Alwin Nikolais
Sophie Maslow
Fresh approaches to the same music
The rite of spring
Jerome Robbins
Merce Cunningham
Pearl Primus
1920 to 1930. Anna Halprin
Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey
Roland Petit
Glen Tetley
Maurice Béjart
1930 to 1940. Donald McKayle
Paul Taylor
Alvin Ailey
New Dance Group
The 92nd Street Y (New York)
Trisha Brown
1940 to 1950. Garth Fagan
Pina Bausch
Twyla Tharp
Meredith Monk
Carolyn Carson
Lar Lubovitch
Mats Ek
Laura Dean
Butoh
Ulysses Dove
Jiří Kylián
Richard Alston
William Forsythe
1950 to 1960. Elizabeth Streb
Siobhan Davies
Bill T. Jones
Ohad Naharin
Karole Armitage
Meryl Tankard
James Kudelka
Stephen Petronio
Mark Morris
Nacho Duato
Angelin Preljocaj
Claude Brumachon
David Parsons
Dance funding
1960 to 1970. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Philippe Decouflé
Michael Clark
Postmodern dance
Contemporary technique I
Tero Saarinen
Sylvie Guillem
Lightfoot León
Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts
Mia Michaels
Helen Pickett
Shen Wei
Alexei Ratmansky
Pam Tanowitz
Trey McIntyre
1970 to 1980. Wayne McGregor
Santee Smith
Pilobolus
Two dance spaces : The kitchen and The yard
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Christopher Wheeldon
Robert Battle
Danspace Project
Akram Khan
Hofesh Shechter
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Sonya Tayeh
Kyle Abraham
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Dance Umbrella
River North Chicago Dance Company
The 1980s and 1990s. Contemporary technique II
Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Joyce Theatre
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Lyon Dance Biennale
Joanna Haigood's Zacco Dance Theatre
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
DanceNOW NYC
Chunky Move
Older dancers
Venice Biennale
2000 and beyond : the new century. Sadler's Wells
Contemporary dance presenters : Baryshnikov Arts Center ; AscenDance Project ; La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
Dancing on the Edge Festival
Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Ballet across America
Jacoby and Pronk.
Notes:
"A Dance Horizons book".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-87127-381-0
0-87127-380-2
OCLC:
828494720

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