Siegel, Marcia B. 1932-

The shapes of change : Images of American dance / Marcia B. Siegel. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1985, ©1979. - xx, 386 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 375-377.

INTRADUCTION -- REHEARSAL -- THE DENISHAWN SUCCESSION -- BEGINNINGS : RITUAL : NEOCLASSICISM I : AMERICANA BALLET : CRYSTALLIZATION I : THE EPIC GRAHAM : BALANCHINE'S AMERICA : ADOLESCENTS : CRYSTALLIZATION II : MEN DANCING -- NEOCLASSICISM II : CHRONOLOGY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. Air for the G String (Humphrey) ; Water Study (Humphrey) ; Life of the Bee (Humphrey) ; Lamentation (Graham) ; Negro Spirituals (Tamiris) -- Primitive Mysteries (Graham) ; The Shakers (Humphrey) -- Serenade (Balanchine) ; New Dance (Humphrey) ; Passacaglia (Humphrey) ; Concerto Barocco (Balanchine) -- Frankie and Johnny (Page-Stone) ; Filling Station (Christensen) ; Billy the Kid (Loring) ; Rodeo (de Mille) ; Fancy Free (Robbins) -- Frontier to Appalachian Spring (Graham) ; Pillar of Fire (Tudor) ; Day on Earth (Humphrey) ; The Moor's Pavane (Limón) -- Letter to the World ; Deaths and Entrances ; Hérodiade ; Dark Meadow ; Errand into the Maze ; Night Journey -- Four Temperaments ; Ivesiana ; Agon ; Episodes -- Interplay (Robbins) ; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (Robbins) ; Moves (Robbins) ; Deuce Coupe (Tharp) -- Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) ; Roms (Sokolow) ; Revelations (Ailey) ; Summerspace and Winterbranch (Cunningham) ; Private Domain (Taylor) -- Septet (Cunningham) ; Aureole (Taylor) ; Early Feld ; As Time Goes By and Push Comes To Shove (Tharp) --

"Going beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment of American dance, the author tracks down - often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape - as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them ...in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination." -- WorldCat

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