Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism / Sally Banes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1994.Description: xv, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0819552666 (alk. paper)
  • 9780819552662 (alk. paper)
  • 0819562688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819562685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 BAN
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .B36 1994
Contents:
I. Writing criticism/history : 1. Jill Johnston: Signaling through the flames ; 2. Working and dancing: a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" (with Noël Carroll) ; 3. Criticism as ethnography ; 4. On your fingertips: writing dance criticism ; 5. Power and the dancing body -- II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde : 6. Balanchine and black dance ; 7. An introduction to the Ballets Suédois ; 8. Soirée de Paris ; 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos ; 10. Merce Cunningham's 'Story' ; 11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll) -- III. The African-American connection : 12. To the beat, y'all: breaking is hard to do ; 13. Breakdancing: a reporter's story ; 14. Lock steady ; 15. Critic's choice: breakdancing ; 16. Breaking ; 17. A house is not a home ; 18. Breaking changing ; 19. The pleasin' in teasin' ; 20. The Moscow Charleston: black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union -- IV. Other subversions: politics and popular dance : 21. Stepping high: Fred Astaire's drunk dances ; 22. The men at John Allen's dance house ; 23. Red shoes: the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s. -- V. Postmodern dance: from the sixties to the nineties : 24. Judson rides again! ; 25. Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater ; 26. Vital signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective ; 27. Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon: notes from a journal ; 28. Dancing on the edge ; 29. "Drive," she said: the dance of Molissa Fenley ; 30. Self-rising choreography ; 31. Transparent living ;32. No more ordinary bodies ; 33. Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance ; 34. Pointe of departure ; 35. Classical brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark ; 36. Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe: postmodern dance revisited ; 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music: vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography ; 38. La onda próxima: nueva Latina dance ; 39. Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties (with Noël Carroll) ; 40. Dancing in leaner times ; 41. Going solo.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index.

I. Writing criticism/history : 1. Jill Johnston: Signaling through the flames ; 2. Working and dancing: a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" (with Noël Carroll) ; 3. Criticism as ethnography ; 4. On your fingertips: writing dance criticism ; 5. Power and the dancing body -- II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde : 6. Balanchine and black dance ; 7. An introduction to the Ballets Suédois ; 8. Soirée de Paris ; 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos ; 10. Merce Cunningham's 'Story' ; 11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll) -- III. The African-American connection : 12. To the beat, y'all: breaking is hard to do ; 13. Breakdancing: a reporter's story ; 14. Lock steady ; 15. Critic's choice: breakdancing ; 16. Breaking ; 17. A house is not a home ; 18. Breaking changing ; 19. The pleasin' in teasin' ; 20. The Moscow Charleston: black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union -- IV. Other subversions: politics and popular dance : 21. Stepping high: Fred Astaire's drunk dances ; 22. The men at John Allen's dance house ; 23. Red shoes: the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s. -- V. Postmodern dance: from the sixties to the nineties : 24. Judson rides again! ; 25. Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater ; 26. Vital signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective ; 27. Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon: notes from a journal ; 28. Dancing on the edge ; 29. "Drive," she said: the dance of Molissa Fenley ; 30. Self-rising choreography ; 31. Transparent living ;32. No more ordinary bodies ; 33. Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance ; 34. Pointe of departure ; 35. Classical brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark ; 36. Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe: postmodern dance revisited ; 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music: vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography ; 38. La onda próxima: nueva Latina dance ; 39. Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties (with Noël Carroll) ; 40. Dancing in leaner times ; 41. Going solo.

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