Reformers and visionaries : the Americanization of the art of dance / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Dance Horizons, 1979.Description: xiv, 153 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 087127101X
  • 9780871271013
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 793.30973 RUY
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .R89
Contents:
PART I: The Theatrical Dance Tradition in America / Ch. 1 Dance in theater: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 2 The genteel transition American Delsartism -- Ch. 3 Passionate revolt: Isadora Duncan -- Ch. 4 The American way: Ruth St.. Denis and Ted Shawn -- PART II: The Educational Dance Tradition in America / Ch. 5 Dance in education: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 6 Invitation to the dance: progressive education theory -- Ch 7. Diana, the storm, and Cassim in the cave: the new dance in higher education -- Ch. 8 In conclusion -- APPENDIXES / I. Dalcroze eurythmics -- II. A tentative list of Delsartian books in English, in chronological order -- III. Bibliography.
Summary: "This study is an intellectual history of the modern American theatrical dance in its first flowering. Its purpose is to demonstrate how dance managed to enter the mainstream American culture and achieve status as a respectable art form. The story has two parts: dance as it developed in theater, and dance as it was used for educational purposes. The main characters are those dance innovators who, with vision and perseverance, dared to question the established order and to investigate history, philosophy, the arts, and the potentialities of the human body in their search for a contemporary, viable expression through movement." -- Book jacket
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 138-147.

PART I: The Theatrical Dance Tradition in America / Ch. 1 Dance in theater: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 2 The genteel transition American Delsartism -- Ch. 3 Passionate revolt: Isadora Duncan -- Ch. 4 The American way: Ruth St.. Denis and Ted Shawn -- PART II: The Educational Dance Tradition in America / Ch. 5 Dance in education: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 6 Invitation to the dance: progressive education theory -- Ch 7. Diana, the storm, and Cassim in the cave: the new dance in higher education -- Ch. 8 In conclusion -- APPENDIXES / I. Dalcroze eurythmics -- II. A tentative list of Delsartian books in English, in chronological order -- III. Bibliography.

"This study is an intellectual history of the modern American theatrical dance in its first flowering. Its purpose is to demonstrate how dance managed to enter the mainstream American culture and achieve status as a respectable art form. The story has two parts: dance as it developed in theater, and dance as it was used for educational purposes. The main characters are those dance innovators who, with vision and perseverance, dared to question the established order and to investigate history, philosophy, the arts, and the potentialities of the human body in their search for a contemporary, viable expression through movement." -- Book jacket

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