Dance, Modernism, and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance, Modernism, and Modernity write by Ramsay Burt. This book was released on 2020. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity, by examining the way in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
Modern Bodies
Modern Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Bodies write by Julia L. Foulkes. This book was released on 2003-11-03. Modern Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
Literature, Modernism, and Dance
Literature, Modernism, and Dance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature, Modernism, and Dance write by Susan Jones. This book was released on 2013-08. Literature, Modernism, and Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature, Modernism, and Dance explores the complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period
Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics
Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics write by Mark Franko. This book was released on 2023-05-02. Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th century. A revisionary account of the evolution of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics features a foreword by Juan Ignacio Vallejos on Franko's career, a new preface, a new chapter on Yvonne Rainer, and an appendix of left-wing dance theory articles from the 1930s. Questioning assumptions that dancing reflects culture, Franko employs a unique interdisciplinary approach to dance analysis that draws from cultural theory, feminist studies, and sexual, class, and modernist politics. Franko also highlights the stories of such dancers as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and even revolutionaries like Douglas Dunn in order to upend and contradict ideas on autonomy and traditionally accepted modernist dance history. Revealing the captivating development of modern dance, this revised edition of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics will fascinate anyone interested in the intersection of performance studies, history, and politics.
Dance, Modernity and Culture
Dance, Modernity and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance, Modernity and Culture write by Helen Thomas. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Dance, Modernity and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.
