TY - BOOK AU - Gitelman,Claudia AU - Martin,Randy TI - The returns of Alwin Nikolais: bodies, boundaries and the dance canon SN - 9780819565754 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - GV1785.N62 G58 2007 U1 - 792.82092 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Middletown, Conn. PB - Wesleyan University Press KW - Nikolais, Alwin KW - Choreographers KW - United States KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: Nikolais returns; Randy Martin --; Chapter 2: Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization; Claudia Gitelman --; Chapter 3: The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais /; Marcia B. Siegel --; Chapter 4: Artisans of space /; Marcia B. Siegel --; Chapter 5: Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders /; Yvonne Hardt --; Chapter 6: Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity; Rebekah Kowal --; Chapter 7: Flights of angels, scattered seeds; Herbert Blau --; Chapter 8: The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study /; Bob Gilmore --; Chapter 9: Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism /; Philip Auslander --; Chapter 10: Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance /; Mark Franko --; DOCUMENTS :; Before Henry Street: An undated memoir /; Alwin Nikolais --; On Nikolais /; Murray Louis --; Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais /; compiled and edited by Naima Prevots --; Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais /; researched and compiled by Jana Feinman --; Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman; compiled by Claudia Gitelman UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101275.html ER -