Theatrical dancing in America :
Palmer, Winthrop 1899-1988
Theatrical dancing in America : the development of the ballet from 1900 / Winthrop Palmer. - 2d ed., rev. - South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, ©1978. - 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 230-232.
PART I The American Revolution : I. Isadora Duncan -- II. Ted Shawn -- III. Ruth St. Denis-- IV. Martha Graham -- V. Doris Humphrey -- VI. Charles Weidman -- VII. A Brief Note on the Ballet -- VIII. Ballet Companies After 1945 -- IX. New Companies and Choreographers -- X. American Modern Dance 1945-75 -- XI. Defectors for the Graham Company -- XII. Eliot Feld at the Public Theatre Nureyev on Broadway -- PART II Russian Ballet : I. "Ballet Dancing Could Have a Meaning" -- II. Russian Ballet in the United States -- III. All-Star Russian Imperial Ballet-Mordkin -- IV. Pavlova Again -- V. The Diaghileff Fiasco -- VI. Nikinsky Ballet Russe, 1916-17 -- VII. Michel Fokine -- VIII. Colonel W. de Basl's Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo -- IX. Lincoln Kirstein's "American Ballet" -- X. The Mordkin Ballet -- XI. Ballet Theatre-Anton Dolin and Anthony Tudor.
"Although this book contains a fund of information about choreographers and dancers, composers and librettists, it is more important as a pioneer volume of dance criticism from the social point of view." -- Jacket
0498021084 9780498021084
76058582
Ballet--History.--United States
GV1623 / .P33 1978
792.80973 / PAL
Theatrical dancing in America : the development of the ballet from 1900 / Winthrop Palmer. - 2d ed., rev. - South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, ©1978. - 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 230-232.
PART I The American Revolution : I. Isadora Duncan -- II. Ted Shawn -- III. Ruth St. Denis-- IV. Martha Graham -- V. Doris Humphrey -- VI. Charles Weidman -- VII. A Brief Note on the Ballet -- VIII. Ballet Companies After 1945 -- IX. New Companies and Choreographers -- X. American Modern Dance 1945-75 -- XI. Defectors for the Graham Company -- XII. Eliot Feld at the Public Theatre Nureyev on Broadway -- PART II Russian Ballet : I. "Ballet Dancing Could Have a Meaning" -- II. Russian Ballet in the United States -- III. All-Star Russian Imperial Ballet-Mordkin -- IV. Pavlova Again -- V. The Diaghileff Fiasco -- VI. Nikinsky Ballet Russe, 1916-17 -- VII. Michel Fokine -- VIII. Colonel W. de Basl's Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo -- IX. Lincoln Kirstein's "American Ballet" -- X. The Mordkin Ballet -- XI. Ballet Theatre-Anton Dolin and Anthony Tudor.
"Although this book contains a fund of information about choreographers and dancers, composers and librettists, it is more important as a pioneer volume of dance criticism from the social point of view." -- Jacket
0498021084 9780498021084
76058582
Ballet--History.--United States
GV1623 / .P33 1978
792.80973 / PAL