TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banes,Sally
TI  - Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism
SN  - 0819552666 (alk. paper)
AV  - GV1623 .B36 1994
U1  - 792.80973 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - [Middletown, Conn.], Hanover
PB  - Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England
KW  - Ballet
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-385) and index; I. Writing criticism/history; 1. Jill Johnston: Signaling through the flames ; 2. Working and dancing: a response to Monroe Beardsley's "What is going on in a dance?" (with Noël Carroll) ; 3. Criticism as ethnography ; 4. On your fingertips: writing dance criticism ; 5. Power and the dancing body --; II. The Euro-American Avant-Garde; 6. Balanchine and black dance ; 7. An introduction to the Ballets Suédois ; 8. Soirée de Paris ; 9. Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet manifestos ; 10. Merce Cunningham's 'Story' ; 11. Cunningham and Duchamp (with Noël Carroll) --; III. The African-American connection; 12. To the beat, y'all: breaking is hard to do ; 13. Breakdancing: a reporter's story ; 14. Lock steady ; 15. Critic's choice: breakdancing ; 16. Breaking ; 17. A house is not a home ; 18. Breaking changing ; 19. The pleasin' in teasin' ; 20. The Moscow Charleston: black jazz dancers in the Soviet Union --; IV. Other subversions: politics and popular dance; 21. Stepping high: Fred Astaire's drunk dances ; 22. The men at John Allen's dance house ; 23. Red shoes: the Workers' Dance league of the 1930s. --; V. Postmodern dance: from the sixties to the nineties; 24. Judson rides again! ; 25. Choreographic methods of the Judson Dance Theater ; 26. Vital signs: Steve Paxton's Flat in perspective ; 27. Meredith Monk and the making of Chacon: notes from a journal ; 28. Dancing on the edge ; 29. "Drive," she said: the dance of Molissa Fenley ; 30. Self-rising choreography ; 31. Transparent living ;32.  No more ordinary bodies ; 33. Happily ever after? The postmodern fairytale and the new dance ; 34. Pointe of departure ; 35. Classical brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark ; 36. Terpsichore in sneakers, high heels, jazz shoes, and on pointe: postmodern dance revisited ; 37. Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the music: vicissitudes of collaboration in American postmodern choreography ; 38. La onda próxima: nueva Latina dance ; 39. Dance and spectacle in the United States in the eighties and nineties (with Noël Carroll) ; 40. Dancing in leaner times ; 41. Going solo
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