Chronicles of the American dance :
Chronicles of the American dance : from the Shakers to Martha Graham /
edited by Paul Magriel.
- 1st paperback ed.
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1978, ©1948.
- xii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- A Da Capo paperback .
Includes bibliographical references.
HISTORICAL ASPECTS : The dance in Shaker ritual / John Durang: the first American dancer / Juba and American minsrelsy / The black crook and the white fawn / The Dodworth Family and ballroom dancing in New York / THE CLASSIC DANCERS : Mary Ann Lee: first American Giselle / Augusta Maywood / George Washington Smith / AMERICAN INNOVATORS : Isadora Duncan / Loie Fuller: the fairy of light / Maud Allan / The Denishawn era (1914-1931) / The recent theater of Martha Graham / by E.D. Andrews -- by Lillian Moore -- by Marian Hannah Winter -- by George Freedley -- by Rosetta O'Neill -- by Lillian Moore -- by Marian Hannah Winter -- by Lillian Moore -- by William Bolitho -- by Clare de Morinni -- by Carl Van Vechten -- by Baird Hastings -- by Robert Horan.
"The dance has had a long history on the American continent. Before the New World was "discovered," there was dancing in the Mexico of Montezuma and the pueblos of the Southwest. Countless centuries before he Spanish invader brought the horse to the Great Plains, the unmounted, pedestrian tribes danced for the hunt, the wa, and for medicine. When Virginia and Florida were explored in the sixteenth century, French and English adventurers sketched the ceremonials they witnessed and left descriptions that have come down to us today." -- Preface.
0306800829
78009067
Dance--History.--United States
GV1623 / .M33 1978b
792.80973 / MAG
Includes bibliographical references.
HISTORICAL ASPECTS : The dance in Shaker ritual / John Durang: the first American dancer / Juba and American minsrelsy / The black crook and the white fawn / The Dodworth Family and ballroom dancing in New York / THE CLASSIC DANCERS : Mary Ann Lee: first American Giselle / Augusta Maywood / George Washington Smith / AMERICAN INNOVATORS : Isadora Duncan / Loie Fuller: the fairy of light / Maud Allan / The Denishawn era (1914-1931) / The recent theater of Martha Graham / by E.D. Andrews -- by Lillian Moore -- by Marian Hannah Winter -- by George Freedley -- by Rosetta O'Neill -- by Lillian Moore -- by Marian Hannah Winter -- by Lillian Moore -- by William Bolitho -- by Clare de Morinni -- by Carl Van Vechten -- by Baird Hastings -- by Robert Horan.
"The dance has had a long history on the American continent. Before the New World was "discovered," there was dancing in the Mexico of Montezuma and the pueblos of the Southwest. Countless centuries before he Spanish invader brought the horse to the Great Plains, the unmounted, pedestrian tribes danced for the hunt, the wa, and for medicine. When Virginia and Florida were explored in the sixteenth century, French and English adventurers sketched the ceremonials they witnessed and left descriptions that have come down to us today." -- Preface.
0306800829
78009067
Dance--History.--United States
GV1623 / .M33 1978b
792.80973 / MAG