What is dance? :
What is dance? : readings in theory and criticism /
[edited by] Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen.
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
- xvi, 582 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 561-567.
I. WHAT IS DANCE : From Letters on dancing and ballets: Letter 1 / Dance as an art of imitation / From The dance: Dance as a means of communication / From The modern Dance: Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis / From Feeling and Form: Virtual powers ; The magic circle / The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / Philosophy of the dance / From Languages of Art: Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration / Philosophers and the dance / Why philosophy neglects the dance / II. THE DANCE MEDIUM : Ballets / Le sacre du printemps / Balanchine's formalism / Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Puppet theatre / III. DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS : From The art-work of the future / Martha Graham's journey / Music and action / The purisim of Étienne Decroux / From Music in London 1890-94 / Edgar Degas and the dance / IV. GENRE AND STYLE - BALLET : Classic ballet: Aria of the aeriel / From Tonight the Ballet: The classic ballet / From The book of Exultation: The vertical: the fundamental principle of classical dance / Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / MODERN DANCE : The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / From Apology for dancing: The sexual idiom / Mind and medium in the modern dance / My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / POST-MODERN DANCE : A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Running out of breath / Notes on music and dance / STYLE : From Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections and Dance and Dances: Problems of definition/ The swan in Zurich / There is nothing "national" about ballet style / From Ballet Alphabet: Classic and romantic ballet / V. LANGUAGE, NOTATION, AND IDENTITY : From The principles of Art: Language and languages / Art as language / Dance notation and choreology / From Languages of Art: The role of notation / Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / VI. DANCE CRITICISM : Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto Barocco) / Monumental Martha / Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / VII. DANCE AND SOCIETY : From The dance of life: The art of dancing / From The Elizabethan world picture: The cosmic dance / From Ancient Art and Ritual: From Ritual to art / The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Striptease / Dance, photography, and the world's body / The egalitarian waltz / An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / A possible grace : from Where she danced / Jean-Georges Noverre - Selma Jeanne Cohen --
John Martin -- John Martin -- Susanne K. Langer -- André Levinson --
Paul Valéry -- Nelson Goodman -- David Michael Levin --
Francis Sparshott -- Stéphane Mallarmé -- Jacques Rivière -- David Michael Levin -- Frank Kermode -- Marshall Cohen -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Richard Wagner -- Eric Bentley -- Constant Lambert -- Eric Bentley -- Bernard Shaw -- Theodore Reff -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Adrian Stokes -- A.K. Volinksy -- Michel Fokine -- Isadora Duncan -- Rayner Heppenstall -- Katharine Gilbert -- Mary Wigman -- Roger Copeland -- Yvonne Rainer -- Tom Johnson -- Steve Reich -- Selma Jeanne Cohen -- R.P. Blackmur -- Anna Kisselgoff -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Robin G. Collingwood -- Joseph Margolis -- Fernau Hall -- Nelson Goodman -- Jack Anderson -- Théophile Gautier -- André Levinson -- Carl van Vechten -- Edwin Denby -- Deborah Jowitt -- Arlene Croce -- Havelock Ellis -- E.M.W. Tillyard -- Jane Harrison -- Ross Wetzsteon -- Roland Barthes -- Roger Copeland -- Ruth Katz -- Joann Kealiinohomoku -- Elizabeth Kendall.
"A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society." -- WorldCat
0195031970 (pbk.) 9780195031973 (pbk.) 0195032179 9780195032178
82014366
Dance.
GV1599 / .W47 1983
792.801 / COP
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 561-567.
I. WHAT IS DANCE : From Letters on dancing and ballets: Letter 1 / Dance as an art of imitation / From The dance: Dance as a means of communication / From The modern Dance: Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis / From Feeling and Form: Virtual powers ; The magic circle / The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / Philosophy of the dance / From Languages of Art: Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration / Philosophers and the dance / Why philosophy neglects the dance / II. THE DANCE MEDIUM : Ballets / Le sacre du printemps / Balanchine's formalism / Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Puppet theatre / III. DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS : From The art-work of the future / Martha Graham's journey / Music and action / The purisim of Étienne Decroux / From Music in London 1890-94 / Edgar Degas and the dance / IV. GENRE AND STYLE - BALLET : Classic ballet: Aria of the aeriel / From Tonight the Ballet: The classic ballet / From The book of Exultation: The vertical: the fundamental principle of classical dance / Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / MODERN DANCE : The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / From Apology for dancing: The sexual idiom / Mind and medium in the modern dance / My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / POST-MODERN DANCE : A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Running out of breath / Notes on music and dance / STYLE : From Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections and Dance and Dances: Problems of definition/ The swan in Zurich / There is nothing "national" about ballet style / From Ballet Alphabet: Classic and romantic ballet / V. LANGUAGE, NOTATION, AND IDENTITY : From The principles of Art: Language and languages / Art as language / Dance notation and choreology / From Languages of Art: The role of notation / Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / VI. DANCE CRITICISM : Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto Barocco) / Monumental Martha / Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / VII. DANCE AND SOCIETY : From The dance of life: The art of dancing / From The Elizabethan world picture: The cosmic dance / From Ancient Art and Ritual: From Ritual to art / The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Striptease / Dance, photography, and the world's body / The egalitarian waltz / An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / A possible grace : from Where she danced / Jean-Georges Noverre - Selma Jeanne Cohen --
John Martin -- John Martin -- Susanne K. Langer -- André Levinson --
Paul Valéry -- Nelson Goodman -- David Michael Levin --
Francis Sparshott -- Stéphane Mallarmé -- Jacques Rivière -- David Michael Levin -- Frank Kermode -- Marshall Cohen -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Richard Wagner -- Eric Bentley -- Constant Lambert -- Eric Bentley -- Bernard Shaw -- Theodore Reff -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Adrian Stokes -- A.K. Volinksy -- Michel Fokine -- Isadora Duncan -- Rayner Heppenstall -- Katharine Gilbert -- Mary Wigman -- Roger Copeland -- Yvonne Rainer -- Tom Johnson -- Steve Reich -- Selma Jeanne Cohen -- R.P. Blackmur -- Anna Kisselgoff -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Robin G. Collingwood -- Joseph Margolis -- Fernau Hall -- Nelson Goodman -- Jack Anderson -- Théophile Gautier -- André Levinson -- Carl van Vechten -- Edwin Denby -- Deborah Jowitt -- Arlene Croce -- Havelock Ellis -- E.M.W. Tillyard -- Jane Harrison -- Ross Wetzsteon -- Roland Barthes -- Roger Copeland -- Ruth Katz -- Joann Kealiinohomoku -- Elizabeth Kendall.
"A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society." -- WorldCat
0195031970 (pbk.) 9780195031973 (pbk.) 0195032179 9780195032178
82014366
Dance.
GV1599 / .W47 1983
792.801 / COP