What is dance? : readings in theory and criticism / [edited by] Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Roger.

Cohen, Marshall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 582 p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

What is dance?

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Letter 1 / Jean-Georges Noverre

Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen

Dance as a means of communication

Metakinesis

Extension of range

Form and metakinesis / John Martin

Virtual powers

The magic circle / Susanne K. Langer

The idea of the dance : from Aristotle to Mallarme / Andre Levinson

Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valery

Modes of symbolization / Nelson Goodman

Afterward-an illustration / Nelson Goodman

Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin

Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott

Ballets / Stephane Mallarme

Le sacre du printemps / Jaques Riviere

Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin

Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode

Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen

Puppet theatre / Heinrich Von Kliest

From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner

Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley

Music and action / Constant Lambert

The purism of Etienne Decroux / Eric Bentley

From Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw

Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff

Classic ballet : aria of the aerial / Lincoln Kirstein

The Classic ballet / Adrian Strokes

The vertical : the fundamental principle of classic dance / A. K. Volinsky

Letter to "The times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine

(cont.) The dance of the future

I see America dancing

Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan

The sexual idiom / Rayner Heppenstall

Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katherine Everett Gilbert

My teacher Laban

The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman

Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception/ Roger Copeland

A quasi survey of some "Minimalist" tendencies... / Yvonne Rainer

Running out of breath / Tom Johnson

Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich

Problems of definition / Selma Jeanne Cohen

The swan in Zurich / R. P. Blackmur

There is nothing "national" about ballet styles / Anna Kisselgoff

Classic and romantic ballet / Lincoln Kirstein

Language and languages / Robin G. Collingwood

Art as language / Joseph Margolis

Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall

The role of notation / Nelson Goodman

Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettes / Jack Anderson

Fanny Elssler in "La tempete"

Revival of "La sylphide" / Theophile Gautier

The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / Andre Levinson

Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl Van Vechten

(cont.) Three sides of Agon

A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto barocco) / Edwin Denby

Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt

Momentous (The four temperaments)

Joffrey Jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce

The art of dancing / Havelock Ellis

The cosmic dance / E. M. W. Tillyard

From ritual to art / Jane Harrison

The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon

Striptease / Roland Barthes

Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland

The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz

An anthropologist looks at a ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku

"A possible grace" / Elizabeth Kendall.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 561-567.

ISBN:

0-19-503197-0

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05781 hdl