Introduction to modern dance techniques / Joshua Legg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hightstown, NJ : Princeton Book Co., ©2011Description: xix, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780871273253
Other title:
  • Modern dance techniques
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.8076 LEG
LOC classification:
  • GV1783 .L44 2011
Contents:
1. The Expressionists / François Delsarte, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Isadora Duncan, Denishawn -- 2. The Originators / Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey -- 3. The Mavericks / Katherine Dunham, Lester Horton -- 4. The Next Generation / José Limón, Erick Hawkins -- 5. The Avant-Garde / Merce Cunningham, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis -- 6. Transition to Postmodernism / Paul Taylor -- 7. Post-Judson Training Practices -- Appendices / A Economy of Movement ; B Improving your Improv ; C Somatics and the Dance Technique Class.
Summary: "Designed with beginning modern dance students and their teachers in mind ... an examination of the art form's foundations. Beginning with an exploration of dance training in the period between classical ballet and the establishment of ... classic modern dance ... trace[s] the development of some of the classic techniques and styles that have profoundly shaped modern dance training and choreography. The book is divided into teaching units, with each chapter pairing compatible or contrasting training systems, and suggesting ways that students can prepare for an encounter with a particular technique"--P. xiv.
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"Cunningham, Dunham, Graham, Hawkins, Horton, Humphrey, Limón, Nikolais/Louis, Taylor."

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The Expressionists / François Delsarte, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Isadora Duncan, Denishawn -- 2. The Originators / Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey -- 3. The Mavericks / Katherine Dunham, Lester Horton -- 4. The Next Generation / José Limón, Erick Hawkins -- 5. The Avant-Garde / Merce Cunningham, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis -- 6. Transition to Postmodernism / Paul Taylor -- 7. Post-Judson Training Practices -- Appendices / A Economy of Movement ; B Improving your Improv ; C Somatics and the Dance Technique Class.

"Designed with beginning modern dance students and their teachers in mind ... an examination of the art form's foundations. Beginning with an exploration of dance training in the period between classical ballet and the establishment of ... classic modern dance ... trace[s] the development of some of the classic techniques and styles that have profoundly shaped modern dance training and choreography. The book is divided into teaching units, with each chapter pairing compatible or contrasting training systems, and suggesting ways that students can prepare for an encounter with a particular technique"--P. xiv.

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