The returns of Alwin Nikolais : bodies, boundaries and the dance canon / edited by Claudia Gitelman and Randy Martin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2007.Description: xii, 296 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780819565754 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 081956575X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780819565761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0819565768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.82092 NIK
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.N62 G58 2007
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Nikolais returns / Randy Martin -- Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Claudia Gitelman -- Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Marcia B. Siegel -- Chapter 4: Artisans of space / Marcia B. Siegel -- Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Yvonne Hardt -- Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Rebekah Kowal -- Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Herbert Blau -- Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Bob Gilmore -- Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Philip Auslander -- Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / Mark Franko -- DOCUMENTS : Before Henry Street: An undated memoir / Alwin Nikolais -- On Nikolais / Murray Louis -- Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / compiled and edited by Naima Prevots -- Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / researched and compiled by Jana Feinman -- Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman. compiled by Claudia Gitelman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Nikolais returns / Randy Martin -- Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Claudia Gitelman -- Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Marcia B. Siegel -- Chapter 4: Artisans of space / Marcia B. Siegel -- Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Yvonne Hardt -- Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Rebekah Kowal -- Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Herbert Blau -- Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Bob Gilmore -- Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Philip Auslander -- Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / Mark Franko -- DOCUMENTS : Before Henry Street: An undated memoir / Alwin Nikolais -- On Nikolais / Murray Louis -- Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / compiled and edited by Naima Prevots -- Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / researched and compiled by Jana Feinman -- Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman. compiled by Claudia Gitelman.

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