Theatrical dancing in America : the development of the ballet from 1900 / Winthrop Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, ©1978.Edition: 2d ed., revDescription: 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0498021084
  • 9780498021084
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 PAL
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .P33 1978
Contents:
PART I The American Revolution : I. Isadora Duncan -- II. Ted Shawn -- III. Ruth St. Denis-- IV. Martha Graham -- V. Doris Humphrey -- VI. Charles Weidman -- VII. A Brief Note on the Ballet -- VIII. Ballet Companies After 1945 -- IX. New Companies and Choreographers -- X. American Modern Dance 1945-75 -- XI. Defectors for the Graham Company -- XII. Eliot Feld at the Public Theatre Nureyev on Broadway -- PART II Russian Ballet : I. "Ballet Dancing Could Have a Meaning" -- II. Russian Ballet in the United States -- III. All-Star Russian Imperial Ballet-Mordkin -- IV. Pavlova Again -- V. The Diaghileff Fiasco -- VI. Nikinsky Ballet Russe, 1916-17 -- VII. Michel Fokine -- VIII. Colonel W. de Basl's Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo -- IX. Lincoln Kirstein's "American Ballet" -- X. The Mordkin Ballet -- XI. Ballet Theatre-Anton Dolin and Anthony Tudor.
Summary: "Although this book contains a fund of information about choreographers and dancers, composers and librettists, it is more important as a pioneer volume of dance criticism from the social point of view." -- Jacket
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792.80973 MAR The dance in theory / 792.80973 MAR The dance in theory / 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 :

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 230-232.

PART I The American Revolution : I. Isadora Duncan -- II. Ted Shawn -- III. Ruth St. Denis-- IV. Martha Graham -- V. Doris Humphrey -- VI. Charles Weidman -- VII. A Brief Note on the Ballet -- VIII. Ballet Companies After 1945 -- IX. New Companies and Choreographers -- X. American Modern Dance 1945-75 -- XI. Defectors for the Graham Company -- XII. Eliot Feld at the Public Theatre Nureyev on Broadway -- PART II Russian Ballet : I. "Ballet Dancing Could Have a Meaning" -- II. Russian Ballet in the United States -- III. All-Star Russian Imperial Ballet-Mordkin -- IV. Pavlova Again -- V. The Diaghileff Fiasco -- VI. Nikinsky Ballet Russe, 1916-17 -- VII. Michel Fokine -- VIII. Colonel W. de Basl's Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo -- IX. Lincoln Kirstein's "American Ballet" -- X. The Mordkin Ballet -- XI. Ballet Theatre-Anton Dolin and Anthony Tudor.

"Although this book contains a fund of information about choreographers and dancers, composers and librettists, it is more important as a pioneer volume of dance criticism from the social point of view." -- Jacket

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