Terpsichore in sneakers :

Banes, Sally 1950-

Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / Sally Banes ; photographs by Robert Alexander. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980. - x, 292 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. - Wesleyan paperback .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [268]-275.

Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance -- Simone Forti: Dancing as if Newborn -- Simone Forti, Animal Stories -- Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial -- Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or An Analysis of Trio A" -- Steve Paxton: Physical Things -- Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover -- Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity -- Trisha Brown, Skymap -- David Gordon: The Ambiguities -- David Gordon, Response -- Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance -- Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance -- Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing -- Lucinda Childs, Street Dance -- Meredith Monk: Homemade Metaphors -- Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice -- Kenneth King: Being Dancing Beings -- Kenneth King, from Print-Out -- Douglas Dunn: Cool Symmetries -- Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing" -- The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance -- The Grand Union, Q & A.

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Modern dance.
Postmodern dance.

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