Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / Sally Banes ; with a new introduction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banes, Sally.

Series:

Wesleyan paperback.

Wesleyan paperback

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxix, 270 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper and Row, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A dance critic's essays on post-modern dance.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition; Introduction to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition; Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance; Simone Forti: Dancing as if Newborn; Simone Forti, Animal Stories; Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial; Yvonne Rainer, Chart from ""A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A""; Steve Paxton: Physical Things; Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover; Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity; Trisha Brown, Skymap

David Gordon: The Ambiguities David Gordon, Response; Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance; Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance; Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing; Lucinda Childs, Street Dance; Meredith Monk: Homemade Metaphors; Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice; Kenneth King: Being Dancing Beings; Kenneth King, from Print-Out; Douglas Dunn: Cool Symmetries; Douglas Dunn, ""Talking Dancing""; The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance; The Grand Union, Q & A; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Index

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14794-7

9786613147943

0-8195-7180-6

0-585-37111-3

OCLC:

767498446