The shapes of change : Images of American dance / Marcia B. Siegel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1985, ©1979.Description: xx, 386 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0520042034
  • 0520042123 (pbk.)
  • 9780520042124 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 SIE
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .S536 1985
Contents:
INTRADUCTION -- REHEARSAL -- THE DENISHAWN SUCCESSION -- BEGINNINGS : Air for the G String (Humphrey) ; Water Study (Humphrey) ; Life of the Bee (Humphrey) ; Lamentation (Graham) ; Negro Spirituals (Tamiris) -- RITUAL : Primitive Mysteries (Graham) ; The Shakers (Humphrey) -- NEOCLASSICISM I : Serenade (Balanchine) ; New Dance (Humphrey) ; Passacaglia (Humphrey) ; Concerto Barocco (Balanchine) -- AMERICANA BALLET : Frankie and Johnny (Page-Stone) ; Filling Station (Christensen) ; Billy the Kid (Loring) ; Rodeo (de Mille) ; Fancy Free (Robbins) -- CRYSTALLIZATION I : Frontier to Appalachian Spring (Graham) ; Pillar of Fire (Tudor) ; Day on Earth (Humphrey) ; The Moor's Pavane (Limón) -- THE EPIC GRAHAM : Letter to the World ; Deaths and Entrances ; Hérodiade ; Dark Meadow ; Errand into the Maze ; Night Journey -- BALANCHINE'S AMERICA : Four Temperaments ; Ivesiana ; Agon ; Episodes -- ADOLESCENTS : Interplay (Robbins) ; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (Robbins) ; Moves (Robbins) ; Deuce Coupe (Tharp) -- CRYSTALLIZATION II : Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) ; Roms (Sokolow) ; Revelations (Ailey) ; Summerspace and Winterbranch (Cunningham) ; Private Domain (Taylor) -- MEN DANCING -- NEOCLASSICISM II : Septet (Cunningham) ; Aureole (Taylor) ; Early Feld ; As Time Goes By and Push Comes To Shove (Tharp) -- CHRONOLOGY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: "Going beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment of American dance, the author tracks down - often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape - as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them ...in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination." -- WorldCat
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792.80973 NEE I see America dancing : 792.80973 PAL Theatrical dancing in America : 792.80973 SHE The people have never stopped dancing : 792.80973 SIE The shapes of change : 792.80973 SIE At the vanishing point : 792.80973 STE Dance as life : 792.80973 TER The dance in America /

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 375-377.

INTRADUCTION -- REHEARSAL -- THE DENISHAWN SUCCESSION -- BEGINNINGS : Air for the G String (Humphrey) ; Water Study (Humphrey) ; Life of the Bee (Humphrey) ; Lamentation (Graham) ; Negro Spirituals (Tamiris) -- RITUAL : Primitive Mysteries (Graham) ; The Shakers (Humphrey) -- NEOCLASSICISM I : Serenade (Balanchine) ; New Dance (Humphrey) ; Passacaglia (Humphrey) ; Concerto Barocco (Balanchine) -- AMERICANA BALLET : Frankie and Johnny (Page-Stone) ; Filling Station (Christensen) ; Billy the Kid (Loring) ; Rodeo (de Mille) ; Fancy Free (Robbins) -- CRYSTALLIZATION I : Frontier to Appalachian Spring (Graham) ; Pillar of Fire (Tudor) ; Day on Earth (Humphrey) ; The Moor's Pavane (Limón) -- THE EPIC GRAHAM : Letter to the World ; Deaths and Entrances ; Hérodiade ; Dark Meadow ; Errand into the Maze ; Night Journey -- BALANCHINE'S AMERICA : Four Temperaments ; Ivesiana ; Agon ; Episodes -- ADOLESCENTS : Interplay (Robbins) ; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (Robbins) ; Moves (Robbins) ; Deuce Coupe (Tharp) -- CRYSTALLIZATION II : Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) ; Roms (Sokolow) ; Revelations (Ailey) ; Summerspace and Winterbranch (Cunningham) ; Private Domain (Taylor) -- MEN DANCING -- NEOCLASSICISM II : Septet (Cunningham) ; Aureole (Taylor) ; Early Feld ; As Time Goes By and Push Comes To Shove (Tharp) -- CHRONOLOGY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

"Going beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment of American dance, the author tracks down - often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape - as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them ...in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination." -- WorldCat

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