Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / Sally Banes ; with a new introduction.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wesleyan paperbackPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper and Row, 1987.Description: xxxix, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0819561606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819561602 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 19 792.8 BAN
LOC classification:
  • GV1783 .B36 1987
Contents:
Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance -- Simone Forti: Dancing as if Newborn -- Simone Forti, Animal Stories -- Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial -- Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or An Analysis of Trio A" -- Steve Paxton: Physical Things -- Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover -- Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity -- Trisha Brown, Skymap -- David Gordon: The Ambiguities -- David Gordon, Response -- Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance -- Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance -- Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing -- Lucinda Childs, Street Dance -- Meredith Monk: Homemade Metaphors -- Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice -- Kenneth King: Being Dancing Beings -- Kenneth King, from Print-Out -- Douglas Dunn: Cool Symmetries -- Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing" -- The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance -- The Grand Union, Q & A.
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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 792.8 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A04639

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [245]-253.

Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance -- Simone Forti: Dancing as if Newborn -- Simone Forti, Animal Stories -- Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial -- Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or An Analysis of Trio A" -- Steve Paxton: Physical Things -- Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover -- Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity -- Trisha Brown, Skymap -- David Gordon: The Ambiguities -- David Gordon, Response -- Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance -- Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance -- Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing -- Lucinda Childs, Street Dance -- Meredith Monk: Homemade Metaphors -- Meredith Monk, Notes on the Voice -- Kenneth King: Being Dancing Beings -- Kenneth King, from Print-Out -- Douglas Dunn: Cool Symmetries -- Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing" -- The Grand Union: The Presentation of Everyday Life as Dance -- The Grand Union, Q & A.

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