Motion arrested :
Parker, H. T. 1867-1934
Motion arrested : dance reviews of H.T. Parker / edited by Olive Holmes. - Middletown, Conn. : [New York] : Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row, ©1982. - xxiv, 325 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Two Ballerinas : II. American Pioneers : III. Dancers from Imperial Russia : IV. Denishawn : V. Modern Dancers in America : VI. Modern Dancers from Germany : VII. Dancers from Spain : VIII. Dancers from the East : IX. Dancers from the Soviet Union : X. Dancer-Mime : Epilogue: Waiting for the Monte Carlo Ballet -- Appendix: H.T.P.: Potrait of a Critic / Adeline Genée ; Anna Pavlova -- Isadora Duncan ; The Duncan Dancers ; Ruth St. Denis -- Diaghilev Ballet ; Vaslav Nijinsky ; Mikhail Fokine and Vera Fokina ; Mikhail Mordkin ; Tamara Karsavina -- Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers ; Ted Shawn and his Men's Group -- Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham -- Mary Wigman ; Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi ; Kurt Jooss -- La Argentina ; Escudero -- Roshanara and Michio Ito -- Vakhtang Chabukiani and Tatiana Vecheslova -- Angna Enters -- by David McCord.
"H.T. Parker's descriptions of performances by great dancers of an earlier era are invaluable. His viewpoints are those of an astute observer, and his writings record important milestones on the way to today's golden age of dance in America" - Walter Terry
Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ruth St. Denis, the young Martha Graham, and other great dancers of the first third of the century come to life again in these eloquent reviews by Henry Taylor Parker.
The eminent critic of the Boston Evening Transcript, H.T.P. (as his readers knew him) was ahead of his time in knowledge and awareness of the dance as a serious art form - what he called "the universal art." A lover of classical ballet, he was open-minded and receptive to Diaghilev's startling innovations, to the pioneering modern dancers Germany and America, and to the dazzling national dancers of Spain, Japan, and India. For many of their performances, H.T.P. provides the only perceptive eyewitness accounts available to us. Long before film recorded the movements of the dance, H.T.P.'s word pictures conveyed a sense of the dancer in motion. Thus these essays form a unique record of the period of the American discovery of dance. -- Book Jacket
0819550582 9780819550583
82224163
Dance--Reviews
GV1600 / .P37 1982
792.8015 / HOL
Motion arrested : dance reviews of H.T. Parker / edited by Olive Holmes. - Middletown, Conn. : [New York] : Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row, ©1982. - xxiv, 325 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Two Ballerinas : II. American Pioneers : III. Dancers from Imperial Russia : IV. Denishawn : V. Modern Dancers in America : VI. Modern Dancers from Germany : VII. Dancers from Spain : VIII. Dancers from the East : IX. Dancers from the Soviet Union : X. Dancer-Mime : Epilogue: Waiting for the Monte Carlo Ballet -- Appendix: H.T.P.: Potrait of a Critic / Adeline Genée ; Anna Pavlova -- Isadora Duncan ; The Duncan Dancers ; Ruth St. Denis -- Diaghilev Ballet ; Vaslav Nijinsky ; Mikhail Fokine and Vera Fokina ; Mikhail Mordkin ; Tamara Karsavina -- Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers ; Ted Shawn and his Men's Group -- Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham -- Mary Wigman ; Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi ; Kurt Jooss -- La Argentina ; Escudero -- Roshanara and Michio Ito -- Vakhtang Chabukiani and Tatiana Vecheslova -- Angna Enters -- by David McCord.
"H.T. Parker's descriptions of performances by great dancers of an earlier era are invaluable. His viewpoints are those of an astute observer, and his writings record important milestones on the way to today's golden age of dance in America" - Walter Terry
Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ruth St. Denis, the young Martha Graham, and other great dancers of the first third of the century come to life again in these eloquent reviews by Henry Taylor Parker.
The eminent critic of the Boston Evening Transcript, H.T.P. (as his readers knew him) was ahead of his time in knowledge and awareness of the dance as a serious art form - what he called "the universal art." A lover of classical ballet, he was open-minded and receptive to Diaghilev's startling innovations, to the pioneering modern dancers Germany and America, and to the dazzling national dancers of Spain, Japan, and India. For many of their performances, H.T.P. provides the only perceptive eyewitness accounts available to us. Long before film recorded the movements of the dance, H.T.P.'s word pictures conveyed a sense of the dancer in motion. Thus these essays form a unique record of the period of the American discovery of dance. -- Book Jacket
0819550582 9780819550583
82224163
Dance--Reviews
GV1600 / .P37 1982
792.8015 / HOL