The returns of Alwin Nikolais :
The returns of Alwin Nikolais : bodies, boundaries and the dance canon /
edited by Claudia Gitelman and Randy Martin.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2007.
- xii, 296 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Nikolais returns / Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Chapter 4: Artisans of space / Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / DOCUMENTS : Before Henry Street: An undated memoir / On Nikolais / Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman. Randy Martin -- Claudia Gitelman -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Yvonne Hardt -- Rebekah Kowal -- Herbert Blau -- Bob Gilmore -- Philip Auslander -- Mark Franko -- Alwin Nikolais -- Murray Louis -- compiled and edited by Naima Prevots -- researched and compiled by Jana Feinman -- compiled by Claudia Gitelman.
9780819565754 (cloth : alk. paper) 081956575X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780819565761 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0819565768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006101275
Nikolais, Alwin 1910-1993
Choreographers--United States--Biography.
GV1785.N62 / G58 2007
792.82092 / NIK
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Nikolais returns / Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Chapter 4: Artisans of space / Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / DOCUMENTS : Before Henry Street: An undated memoir / On Nikolais / Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman. Randy Martin -- Claudia Gitelman -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Yvonne Hardt -- Rebekah Kowal -- Herbert Blau -- Bob Gilmore -- Philip Auslander -- Mark Franko -- Alwin Nikolais -- Murray Louis -- compiled and edited by Naima Prevots -- researched and compiled by Jana Feinman -- compiled by Claudia Gitelman.
9780819565754 (cloth : alk. paper) 081956575X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780819565761 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0819565768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006101275
Nikolais, Alwin 1910-1993
Choreographers--United States--Biography.
GV1785.N62 / G58 2007
792.82092 / NIK