The dance :
Martin, John 1893-1985
The dance : the story of the dance told in pictures and text / by John Martin. - New York : Tudor Pub. Co., ©1946. - 160 p : illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm
Includes index.
Part 1: Basic Dance / Part 2: Dance for the Sake of Dance / Part 3: Dance as Spectacle / Part 4: Dance as a Means of Communication / Part 5: Dance in the Technological Era / Variation in Form ; Basic Music -- Folk Dancing ; The Cycle of Ballroom Dancing -- The Court Ballet ; The Ballet Becomes Professional ; Noverre and the "Ballet of Action" ; The Romantic Revolution ; Nineteenth Century Decline ; Fokine Reawakens the Ballet ; The Ballet Russe in the Western World ; Pavlova and Nijinsky ; Diaghileff and the International Period ; Leonide Massine ; Bronislava Nijinska ; Balanchine and American Ballet ; A Non-Russian Era Dawns ; Antony Tudor and Neo-Romanticism ; American Roots -- Isadora Duncan ; Densihawn ; Mary Wigman ; Hanya Holm ; Second Generation ; Doris Humphrey ; Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham ; Helen Tamiris ; Third Generation ; Negro Dance -- The Field of Motion Picture ; Fred Astaire ; Gene Kelly.
"Traces the development of dance from its primitive beginnings, through folk and early ballroom dancing, court and modern ballet, pageants and spectacles, to the latest forms. Includes a chapter on dance in films." -- Worldcat
007579869 UK 002400592 UK
Dance
Dancers
GV1781 / .M33
792.8 / MAR
The dance : the story of the dance told in pictures and text / by John Martin. - New York : Tudor Pub. Co., ©1946. - 160 p : illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm
Includes index.
Part 1: Basic Dance / Part 2: Dance for the Sake of Dance / Part 3: Dance as Spectacle / Part 4: Dance as a Means of Communication / Part 5: Dance in the Technological Era / Variation in Form ; Basic Music -- Folk Dancing ; The Cycle of Ballroom Dancing -- The Court Ballet ; The Ballet Becomes Professional ; Noverre and the "Ballet of Action" ; The Romantic Revolution ; Nineteenth Century Decline ; Fokine Reawakens the Ballet ; The Ballet Russe in the Western World ; Pavlova and Nijinsky ; Diaghileff and the International Period ; Leonide Massine ; Bronislava Nijinska ; Balanchine and American Ballet ; A Non-Russian Era Dawns ; Antony Tudor and Neo-Romanticism ; American Roots -- Isadora Duncan ; Densihawn ; Mary Wigman ; Hanya Holm ; Second Generation ; Doris Humphrey ; Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham ; Helen Tamiris ; Third Generation ; Negro Dance -- The Field of Motion Picture ; Fred Astaire ; Gene Kelly.
"Traces the development of dance from its primitive beginnings, through folk and early ballroom dancing, court and modern ballet, pageants and spectacles, to the latest forms. Includes a chapter on dance in films." -- Worldcat
007579869 UK 002400592 UK
Dance
Dancers
GV1781 / .M33
792.8 / MAR