The dance : the story of the dance told in pictures and text / by John Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Tudor Pub. Co., ©1946. Description: 160 p : illustrations ; 28 x 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.8 MAR
LOC classification:
  • GV1781 .M33
Contents:
Part 1: Basic Dance / Variation in Form ; Basic Music -- Part 2: Dance for the Sake of Dance / Folk Dancing ; The Cycle of Ballroom Dancing -- Part 3: Dance as Spectacle / The Court Ballet ; The Ballet Becomes Professional ; Noverre and the "Ballet of Action" ; The Romantic Revolution ; Nineteenth Century Decline ; Fokine Reawakens the Ballet ; The Ballet Russe in the Western World ; Pavlova and Nijinsky ; Diaghileff and the International Period ; Leonide Massine ; Bronislava Nijinska ; Balanchine and American Ballet ; A Non-Russian Era Dawns ; Antony Tudor and Neo-Romanticism ; American Roots -- Part 4: Dance as a Means of Communication / Isadora Duncan ; Densihawn ; Mary Wigman ; Hanya Holm ; Second Generation ; Doris Humphrey ; Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham ; Helen Tamiris ; Third Generation ; Negro Dance -- Part 5: Dance in the Technological Era / The Field of Motion Picture ; Fred Astaire ; Gene Kelly.
Summary: "Traces the development of dance from its primitive beginnings, through folk and early ballroom dancing, court and modern ballet, pageants and spectacles, to the latest forms. Includes a chapter on dance in films." -- Worldcat
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Includes index.

Part 1: Basic Dance / Variation in Form ; Basic Music -- Part 2: Dance for the Sake of Dance / Folk Dancing ; The Cycle of Ballroom Dancing -- Part 3: Dance as Spectacle / The Court Ballet ; The Ballet Becomes Professional ; Noverre and the "Ballet of Action" ; The Romantic Revolution ; Nineteenth Century Decline ; Fokine Reawakens the Ballet ; The Ballet Russe in the Western World ; Pavlova and Nijinsky ; Diaghileff and the International Period ; Leonide Massine ; Bronislava Nijinska ; Balanchine and American Ballet ; A Non-Russian Era Dawns ; Antony Tudor and Neo-Romanticism ; American Roots -- Part 4: Dance as a Means of Communication / Isadora Duncan ; Densihawn ; Mary Wigman ; Hanya Holm ; Second Generation ; Doris Humphrey ; Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham ; Helen Tamiris ; Third Generation ; Negro Dance -- Part 5: Dance in the Technological Era / The Field of Motion Picture ; Fred Astaire ; Gene Kelly.

"Traces the development of dance from its primitive beginnings, through folk and early ballroom dancing, court and modern ballet, pageants and spectacles, to the latest forms. Includes a chapter on dance in films." -- Worldcat

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