Converging movements : modern dance and Jewish culture at the 92nd Street Y / Naomi M. Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2000.Description: xii, 288 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0819564206
  • 9780819564207
Other title:
  • Modern dance and Jewish culture at the 92nd Street Y
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.808992407471 JAC
LOC classification:
  • GV1783 .J33 2000
Contents:
Introduction: democracy, diversity, dance, and the Jewish encounter with America -- 1. Jews and American culture: the 92nd Street Y and William Kolodney -- 2. Founding the YM-YWHA dance center, 1934-1936 -- 3. Democracy in action: educating the human being through dance -- 4. Audience building, Jews, and global culture: the first season of the Merry-Go-Rounders -- 5. Producing on the edge: the Y as debut dance hall and alternative performance space -- 6. Choreographing difference: the aesthetics of diversity -- 7. Synthesizing the universal and particular: producing "Jewish dance" at the Y -- 8. A postmodern precursor: the Y's legacy beyond the 1960s. Appendixes : A. Members of the Dance Teachers Advisory Committee, 1939-53 ; B. Dance Performances at the 92nd Street Y, 1935-59.
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792.80834 CON Teaching children dance / 792.80846 BEA Dance for the older adult / 792.80872 BEN Inner rhythm : 792.808992407471 JAC Converging movements : 792.808996073 EME Black dance : 792.808996073 GLA African American dance : 792.808996073 MAN Modern dance, Negro dance :

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276) and index.

Introduction: democracy, diversity, dance, and the Jewish encounter with America -- 1. Jews and American culture: the 92nd Street Y and William Kolodney -- 2. Founding the YM-YWHA dance center, 1934-1936 -- 3. Democracy in action: educating the human being through dance -- 4. Audience building, Jews, and global culture: the first season of the Merry-Go-Rounders -- 5. Producing on the edge: the Y as debut dance hall and alternative performance space -- 6. Choreographing difference: the aesthetics of diversity -- 7. Synthesizing the universal and particular: producing "Jewish dance" at the Y -- 8. A postmodern precursor: the Y's legacy beyond the 1960s. Appendixes : A. Members of the Dance Teachers Advisory Committee, 1939-53 ; B. Dance Performances at the 92nd Street Y, 1935-59.

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