Dance in America / Robert Coe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Dutton, ©1985.Description: 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0525243259
  • 9780525243250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 COE
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .C64 1985
Contents:
Dance in America: A Coming of Age -- The Ballet in America -- From the Old World to the New -- The New York City Ballet: A Continuous Present -- American Ballet Theatre: The Moonlit Atmosphere of Love and Death -- The Feld Ballet: The Universe of Eliot Feld -- The Pennsylvania Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem: West of the Hudson and Uptown -- The Moderns and Beyond -- The Origins of Modern Dance: An American Garden -- The Martha Graham Dance Company: An Inner Landscape -- Katherine Dunham and Her People: Divine Drumbeats -- The Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Movement in Time and Space -- Postmodern Dance: Life as Art as Life -- Two Contemporary Masters -- The Paul Taylor Dance Company: American Gothic -- Twyla Tharp and Dancers: Getting There.
Summary: This companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS television series offers a complete history of dance in America and a behind-the-scenes look at companies, choreographers, and individual dancers. Coe shows how ballet, with its roots in France and Russia, has undergone a renaissance in the United States. Focusing on the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, and Balanchine's contributions, he offers examples of the expansion of ballet's popularity in the Feld Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. He also describes the origins of modern dance, the contributions of its pioneers Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller and Denishawn, and the artistic revolution of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. He covers postmodernists such as Paul Taylor and Katherine Dunham, and concludes with a portrait of Twyla Tharp. ISBN 0-525-24325-9
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 241-242.

Dance in America: A Coming of Age -- The Ballet in America -- From the Old World to the New -- The New York City Ballet: A Continuous Present -- American Ballet Theatre: The Moonlit Atmosphere of Love and Death -- The Feld Ballet: The Universe of Eliot Feld -- The Pennsylvania Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem: West of the Hudson and Uptown -- The Moderns and Beyond -- The Origins of Modern Dance: An American Garden -- The Martha Graham Dance Company: An Inner Landscape -- Katherine Dunham and Her People: Divine Drumbeats -- The Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Movement in Time and Space -- Postmodern Dance: Life as Art as Life -- Two Contemporary Masters -- The Paul Taylor Dance Company: American Gothic -- Twyla Tharp and Dancers: Getting There.

This companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS television series offers a complete history of dance in America and a behind-the-scenes look at companies, choreographers, and individual dancers. Coe shows how ballet, with its roots in France and Russia, has undergone a renaissance in the United States. Focusing on the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, and Balanchine's contributions, he offers examples of the expansion of ballet's popularity in the Feld Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. He also describes the origins of modern dance, the contributions of its pioneers Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller and Denishawn, and the artistic revolution of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. He covers postmodernists such as Paul Taylor and Katherine Dunham, and concludes with a portrait of Twyla Tharp. ISBN 0-525-24325-9

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