Dance writings /
Denby, Edwin 1903-1983
Dance writings / Edwin Denby ; edited by Robert Cornfield and William MacKay. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986. - xi, 608 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [579]-581.
Introduction / by Robert Cornfield -- Edwin Denby, 1903-1983 / by William MacKay -- From Modern Music : Nijinska's Noces -- Nijinsky's Faun ; Massine's Symphonie Fantastique ; American Ballet Caravan -- Graham's Chronicle ; Uday Shankar -- Balanchine's American Ballet -- Balanchine's Apollon ; American Ballet Caravan -- The World's Fair -- Massine and the new Monte Carlo -- Argentinita ; Some musicals ; Graham's American Document -- Modern dancers and human beings -- Ashton's Devil's Holiday and more Monte Carlo -- A note to composers -- Balanchine and Stravinsky : Poker Game and Baiser ; The Monte Carlo season -- Lifar as writer -- The Original Ballet Russe -- Graham's El Penitente and Letter to the World ; Balanchine's Balustrade -- Hanya Holm ; At the circus -- Kurt Jooss ; The Monte Carlo Ballet -- Ballet Theatre ; Graham's Punch and the Judy -- Carmen Amaya ; Isadora reconsidered ; Dance photographs ; Punch and the Judy revisited -- Fokine's Russian Soldier ; Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Balanchine's Elephant Ballet -- De Mille's Rodeo ; Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Massine's Aleko -- Balanchine and Tchaikovsky : Ballet Imperial ; Carmen Amaya ; Doris Humphrey -- Markova's dance rhythm ; Tudor's Romeo and Juliet -- From the New York Herald Tribune : The Nutcracker ; Massine's Three-Cornered Hat -- Dolin's Romantic Age -- Tudor's Dark Elegies ; Swan Lake -- Argentinita -- Charles Weidman -- Aleko ; Karen Conrad -- Loring's Billy the Kid -- Tudor's Romeo and Juliet revisited -- Danilova: pleasure in the grand style -- Ballet at Lewisohn: Les Sylphides and Petrouchka -- Swan Lake and Aleko at the Stadium -- Ballet Theatre and the Monte Carlo -- Massine's Capriccio Espagnol ; De Mille's Three Virgins ; Giselle -- Tudor's Gala Performance -- On commissioning new ballet scores -- Tudor and pantomime -- On meaning in dance -- Ballet technique -- The dance in film -- Balanchine and de Mille on Broadway -- Concert dancers in nightclubs -- Ice-Capades for war bonds -- Katherine Dunham -- About toe dancing -- How to judge a dancer -- Massine's Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Dolin's Pas de Quatre -- Lichine's Fair st Sorochinsk -- A correction -- Back to the Fair -- Regrets about Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Lilac Garden ; Lichine's Helen of Troy -- Argentinita's Pictures of Goya ; Tudor's Judgment of Paris -- Tudor's Dim Lustre -- Dim Lustre and Romeo and Juliet -- A Ballet Theatre matinee -- A Ballet Theatre matinee -- The de Mille Touch -- Tchaikovsky at Ballet Theatre -- Billy the Kid and its dance faults -- Concerto Barocco at Needle Trades High School -- Alonso's Giselle -- Some ballet books -- Rosella Hightower ; Jerome Robbins -- Some faults of Ballet Theatre -- Argentinita at Carnegie Hall -- American Concert Ballet : three new choreographers -- Dudley, Maslow, Bates -- A recital of dance styles -- Anna Sokolow : Carmen Jones ; Baronova -- Asadata Dafora -- Graham's Deaths and Entrances and Salem Shore -- Paul Draper -- The Metropolitan Opera Ballet -- Sybil Shearer ; Carmen Amaya -- Deaths and Entrances revisited -- Henie's Ice Revue -- Skating as ballet -- Pearl Primus and Valerie Bettis -- Hanya Holm's Orestes -- Why not a New York ballet? -- Swan Lake in East Indian -- The Rockettes and rhythm -- Humphrey's Inquest -- A note on dance intelligence -- A forum on dance criticism -- Merce Cunningham -- Rosario and Antonio -- Nijinska's Etude -- De Mille's Tally-ho -- Beecham at the ballet -- Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Balanchine's Serenade -- Serenade -- A Monte Carlo matinee -- The Monte Carlo at City Center -- Nijinska's Ancient Russia and Snow Maiden -- Fancy Free -- Boris and Moylan in Serenade -- Fancy Free a second time -- Pearl Primus -- Dark Elegies -- A tribute to Yousekevitch -- Janet Reed : learning to star -- Markova's Giselle : Ballet Theatre's glory -- Where are the new serious ballets? -- Graham's intellectual fury -- Three Graham solos -- Graham's American Document and Primitive Mysteries -- Markova in Les Sylphides -- Hightower as Swan Queen -- A ballet lover's view of Martha Graham -- Ballet conducting : Beecham and Bernstein -- Marianne Moore on Pavlova -- The Monte Carlo minus Franklin -- Schéhérazade : a foundering warhorse -- Balanchine's Danses Concertantes -- The Monte Carlo's Coppélia -- Coppélia tells the facts of life -- Balanchine's Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- Le Bourgeois transformed -- Pearl Primus on Broadway -- Lichine's Graduation Ball ; Toumanova -- Ballet Theatre back in stride -- Balanchine's Waltz Academy -- Riabouchinska and Toumanova -- Toumanova in Giselle -- Princess Aurora and Petipa -- Toumanova's show -- Don Quixote Pas de Deux -- Carnaval -- A fault in Ballet Theatre's dancing -- Ballet International -- Caton's Sebastian -- Semenoff's Memories ; Nijinska's Bolero -- Nijinska's Pictures at an Exhibition -- Toumanova and Dolin at Ballet Theatre -- Ballet International at two weeks -- Cobos's Mute Wife -- About Ballet decoration -- Meaning in The Nutcracker -- Dali's Mad Tristan -- International's farewell -- Ballet International in retrospect -- Cunningham solo -- India, Haiti, Africa -- On the Town ; Sing Out, Sweet Land ; Song of Norway -- Dudley, Maslow, Bales and Cunningham -- Deaths and Entrances -- Marie Marchowsky and Jean Erdman -- More Argentinita -- Ballet Imperial -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- Danses Concertantes ; Nijinska's Snow Maiden -- Page and Stone's Frankie and Johnny -- Frankie and Johnny : an indecent ballet? -- Balanchine's Mozartiana -- Coppélia : ballet's masterpiece of comedy -- Balanchine's Pas de Deux -- Balanchine : ballet magician -- The Monte Carlo now -- Nijinska's Harvest Time -- Massine's Moonlight Sonata -- Markova at Ballet Theatre -- Tudor's Undertow -- The Toumanova problem -- Ballet Theatre's season -- Valerie Bettis -- Appalachian Spring -- Graham's Herodiade -- Graham's John Brown -- Cunningham's Mysterious Adventure -- Appalachian Spring and Herodiade a second time -- Concerto Barocco : Bach in bathing suits -- Danilova and rhythm -- Danilova and rhythm -- Concerto Barocco -- Bolender's Comedia Balletica -- To Argentinita -- Undertow revisited -- Michael Kidd's On Stage -- Semenoff's Gift of the Magi -- Apollo : the power of poetry -- Alonso and Eglevsky in Giselle -- Chagall's Firebird -- Taras's Graziana -- Apollo -- Ups and downs at Ballet Theatre -- Robbins's Interplay -- Robbins's Interplay -- Markova's failing -- The American Ballet School at Carnegie Hall -- Ballet Theatre in decline ... and a farewell -- Reviews and Appreciations : The Monte Caro distracted -- Ballet Theatre vs. Hurok : a war of attrition -- Ballet Theatre wins -- Wigman after the war -- Ashton's Cinderella -- An open letter about the Paris Opera Ballet -- A letter about Ulanova -- A letter about Ulanova and the Royal Danish Ballet -- Impressions of Markova at the Met -- Obituary for Ballet -- Stars of the Russian Ballet : a film review -- Romeo and Juliet : a film review -- The Bolshoi at the Met -- A note on Kabuki -- The Royal Ballet in New York -- Martha at sixty-eight -- Paul Taylor -- Merce Cunningham -- Balanchine and the New York City Ballet : A note on Balanchine's present style -- The Four Temperaments -- A letter on New York City's Ballet -- A letter on Caracole -- Some thoughts about classicism and George Balanchine -- Opus 34 -- The Nutcracker -- Western Symphony and Ivesiana -- Roma -- Three sides of Agon -- In the abstract -- Liebeslieder Walzer -- Electronics -- Balanchine choreographing -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Don Quixote -- Balanchine's poetics -- Essays : Notes on Nijinsky photographs -- Flight of the dancer -- A technical weakness of our male dancers -- Ballet : the American position -- A briefing in American ballet -- Against meaning in ballet -- Dance criticism -- Superficial thoughts on foreign classicism -- Dancers, buildings, and people in the streets -- Forms in motion and in thought -- Appendix: From the Postscript to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets ; Introduction to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets / by Frank O'Hara.
0394544161 (pbk.) 9780394544168 (pbk.) 0394749847 (pbk. : cover) 9780394749846 (pbk. : cover)
85045935
Dance--Reviews.
GV1599 / .D39 1986
792.8 / DEN
Dance writings / Edwin Denby ; edited by Robert Cornfield and William MacKay. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986. - xi, 608 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [579]-581.
Introduction / by Robert Cornfield -- Edwin Denby, 1903-1983 / by William MacKay -- From Modern Music : Nijinska's Noces -- Nijinsky's Faun ; Massine's Symphonie Fantastique ; American Ballet Caravan -- Graham's Chronicle ; Uday Shankar -- Balanchine's American Ballet -- Balanchine's Apollon ; American Ballet Caravan -- The World's Fair -- Massine and the new Monte Carlo -- Argentinita ; Some musicals ; Graham's American Document -- Modern dancers and human beings -- Ashton's Devil's Holiday and more Monte Carlo -- A note to composers -- Balanchine and Stravinsky : Poker Game and Baiser ; The Monte Carlo season -- Lifar as writer -- The Original Ballet Russe -- Graham's El Penitente and Letter to the World ; Balanchine's Balustrade -- Hanya Holm ; At the circus -- Kurt Jooss ; The Monte Carlo Ballet -- Ballet Theatre ; Graham's Punch and the Judy -- Carmen Amaya ; Isadora reconsidered ; Dance photographs ; Punch and the Judy revisited -- Fokine's Russian Soldier ; Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Balanchine's Elephant Ballet -- De Mille's Rodeo ; Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Massine's Aleko -- Balanchine and Tchaikovsky : Ballet Imperial ; Carmen Amaya ; Doris Humphrey -- Markova's dance rhythm ; Tudor's Romeo and Juliet -- From the New York Herald Tribune : The Nutcracker ; Massine's Three-Cornered Hat -- Dolin's Romantic Age -- Tudor's Dark Elegies ; Swan Lake -- Argentinita -- Charles Weidman -- Aleko ; Karen Conrad -- Loring's Billy the Kid -- Tudor's Romeo and Juliet revisited -- Danilova: pleasure in the grand style -- Ballet at Lewisohn: Les Sylphides and Petrouchka -- Swan Lake and Aleko at the Stadium -- Ballet Theatre and the Monte Carlo -- Massine's Capriccio Espagnol ; De Mille's Three Virgins ; Giselle -- Tudor's Gala Performance -- On commissioning new ballet scores -- Tudor and pantomime -- On meaning in dance -- Ballet technique -- The dance in film -- Balanchine and de Mille on Broadway -- Concert dancers in nightclubs -- Ice-Capades for war bonds -- Katherine Dunham -- About toe dancing -- How to judge a dancer -- Massine's Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Pillar of Fire ; Dolin's Pas de Quatre -- Lichine's Fair st Sorochinsk -- A correction -- Back to the Fair -- Regrets about Mademoiselle Angot -- Tudor's Lilac Garden ; Lichine's Helen of Troy -- Argentinita's Pictures of Goya ; Tudor's Judgment of Paris -- Tudor's Dim Lustre -- Dim Lustre and Romeo and Juliet -- A Ballet Theatre matinee -- A Ballet Theatre matinee -- The de Mille Touch -- Tchaikovsky at Ballet Theatre -- Billy the Kid and its dance faults -- Concerto Barocco at Needle Trades High School -- Alonso's Giselle -- Some ballet books -- Rosella Hightower ; Jerome Robbins -- Some faults of Ballet Theatre -- Argentinita at Carnegie Hall -- American Concert Ballet : three new choreographers -- Dudley, Maslow, Bates -- A recital of dance styles -- Anna Sokolow : Carmen Jones ; Baronova -- Asadata Dafora -- Graham's Deaths and Entrances and Salem Shore -- Paul Draper -- The Metropolitan Opera Ballet -- Sybil Shearer ; Carmen Amaya -- Deaths and Entrances revisited -- Henie's Ice Revue -- Skating as ballet -- Pearl Primus and Valerie Bettis -- Hanya Holm's Orestes -- Why not a New York ballet? -- Swan Lake in East Indian -- The Rockettes and rhythm -- Humphrey's Inquest -- A note on dance intelligence -- A forum on dance criticism -- Merce Cunningham -- Rosario and Antonio -- Nijinska's Etude -- De Mille's Tally-ho -- Beecham at the ballet -- Nijinska's Chopin Concerto ; Balanchine's Serenade -- Serenade -- A Monte Carlo matinee -- The Monte Carlo at City Center -- Nijinska's Ancient Russia and Snow Maiden -- Fancy Free -- Boris and Moylan in Serenade -- Fancy Free a second time -- Pearl Primus -- Dark Elegies -- A tribute to Yousekevitch -- Janet Reed : learning to star -- Markova's Giselle : Ballet Theatre's glory -- Where are the new serious ballets? -- Graham's intellectual fury -- Three Graham solos -- Graham's American Document and Primitive Mysteries -- Markova in Les Sylphides -- Hightower as Swan Queen -- A ballet lover's view of Martha Graham -- Ballet conducting : Beecham and Bernstein -- Marianne Moore on Pavlova -- The Monte Carlo minus Franklin -- Schéhérazade : a foundering warhorse -- Balanchine's Danses Concertantes -- The Monte Carlo's Coppélia -- Coppélia tells the facts of life -- Balanchine's Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- Le Bourgeois transformed -- Pearl Primus on Broadway -- Lichine's Graduation Ball ; Toumanova -- Ballet Theatre back in stride -- Balanchine's Waltz Academy -- Riabouchinska and Toumanova -- Toumanova in Giselle -- Princess Aurora and Petipa -- Toumanova's show -- Don Quixote Pas de Deux -- Carnaval -- A fault in Ballet Theatre's dancing -- Ballet International -- Caton's Sebastian -- Semenoff's Memories ; Nijinska's Bolero -- Nijinska's Pictures at an Exhibition -- Toumanova and Dolin at Ballet Theatre -- Ballet International at two weeks -- Cobos's Mute Wife -- About Ballet decoration -- Meaning in The Nutcracker -- Dali's Mad Tristan -- International's farewell -- Ballet International in retrospect -- Cunningham solo -- India, Haiti, Africa -- On the Town ; Sing Out, Sweet Land ; Song of Norway -- Dudley, Maslow, Bales and Cunningham -- Deaths and Entrances -- Marie Marchowsky and Jean Erdman -- More Argentinita -- Ballet Imperial -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- Danses Concertantes ; Nijinska's Snow Maiden -- Page and Stone's Frankie and Johnny -- Frankie and Johnny : an indecent ballet? -- Balanchine's Mozartiana -- Coppélia : ballet's masterpiece of comedy -- Balanchine's Pas de Deux -- Balanchine : ballet magician -- The Monte Carlo now -- Nijinska's Harvest Time -- Massine's Moonlight Sonata -- Markova at Ballet Theatre -- Tudor's Undertow -- The Toumanova problem -- Ballet Theatre's season -- Valerie Bettis -- Appalachian Spring -- Graham's Herodiade -- Graham's John Brown -- Cunningham's Mysterious Adventure -- Appalachian Spring and Herodiade a second time -- Concerto Barocco : Bach in bathing suits -- Danilova and rhythm -- Danilova and rhythm -- Concerto Barocco -- Bolender's Comedia Balletica -- To Argentinita -- Undertow revisited -- Michael Kidd's On Stage -- Semenoff's Gift of the Magi -- Apollo : the power of poetry -- Alonso and Eglevsky in Giselle -- Chagall's Firebird -- Taras's Graziana -- Apollo -- Ups and downs at Ballet Theatre -- Robbins's Interplay -- Robbins's Interplay -- Markova's failing -- The American Ballet School at Carnegie Hall -- Ballet Theatre in decline ... and a farewell -- Reviews and Appreciations : The Monte Caro distracted -- Ballet Theatre vs. Hurok : a war of attrition -- Ballet Theatre wins -- Wigman after the war -- Ashton's Cinderella -- An open letter about the Paris Opera Ballet -- A letter about Ulanova -- A letter about Ulanova and the Royal Danish Ballet -- Impressions of Markova at the Met -- Obituary for Ballet -- Stars of the Russian Ballet : a film review -- Romeo and Juliet : a film review -- The Bolshoi at the Met -- A note on Kabuki -- The Royal Ballet in New York -- Martha at sixty-eight -- Paul Taylor -- Merce Cunningham -- Balanchine and the New York City Ballet : A note on Balanchine's present style -- The Four Temperaments -- A letter on New York City's Ballet -- A letter on Caracole -- Some thoughts about classicism and George Balanchine -- Opus 34 -- The Nutcracker -- Western Symphony and Ivesiana -- Roma -- Three sides of Agon -- In the abstract -- Liebeslieder Walzer -- Electronics -- Balanchine choreographing -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Don Quixote -- Balanchine's poetics -- Essays : Notes on Nijinsky photographs -- Flight of the dancer -- A technical weakness of our male dancers -- Ballet : the American position -- A briefing in American ballet -- Against meaning in ballet -- Dance criticism -- Superficial thoughts on foreign classicism -- Dancers, buildings, and people in the streets -- Forms in motion and in thought -- Appendix: From the Postscript to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets ; Introduction to Dancers, buildings and people in the streets / by Frank O'Hara.
0394544161 (pbk.) 9780394544168 (pbk.) 0394749847 (pbk. : cover) 9780394749846 (pbk. : cover)
85045935
Dance--Reviews.
GV1599 / .D39 1986
792.8 / DEN