TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Selma Jeanne
TI  - Dance as a theatre art: source readings in dance history from 1581 to the present 
SN  - 0903102307
U1  - 792.809 20
PY  - 1977///
CY  - London
PB  - Dance Books
KW  - Dance
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
N1  - First published in 1974; Bibliography: p. [217]-224; Introduction~The Evolution of Theatre Dance --; Section One~The Court Ballet; Rules and Directions for Dancing the "Passo e Mezo," from Il Ballerino (Venice, 1581); Fabritio Caroso --; Ballet Comique de la Reine (Paris, 1582); Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx --; How to Compose Successful Ballets, from La Manière de composer et faire réussir les ballets (Paris, 1641); Saint-Hubert --; Section Two~Dance for the Eye and the Heart: The Eighteenth Century; The Minuet, from Der Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (Leipzig, 1717); Gottfried Taubert --; The Loves of Mars and Venue (London, 1717); John Weaver --; Two Letters on Dancing, from Lettres sur la danse et les ballets (Stuttgart, 1760); Jean Georges Noverre --; Section Three~The Invasion of the Air: The Romantic Era; An Account of the Principles of Our Traditions, from Théorie de la gymnastique de la danse théâtrale (Paris, 1859); G. Léopold Adice --; La Syliphide (Copenhagen, 1836); August Bournonville --; Reviews of Fanny Cerrito and Marie Guy-Stéphan, from La Presse (1846, 1853); Théophile Gautier --; Section Four~New Life from Russia; The Sleeping Beauty (St. Petersburg, 1889); Marius Petipa --; The New Ballet, from Argus (1916); Michel Fokine --; The Creation of "Parade," from My Life in Ballet (New York, 1968); Léonide Massine --; The Spirit of the Classic Dance, from Theatre Arts Monthly (1925); André Levinson --; Section Five~The Modern Dance: Moving from the Inside Out; The Dancer of the Future, from The Art of the Dance (New York, 1928); Isadora Duncan --; Music Visualization, from The Denishawn Magazine (1925); Ruth St. Denis --; A Modern Dancer's Primer for Action, from Dance: A Basic Educational Technique (New York, 1941); Martha Graham --; New Dance (New York, 1935); Doris Humphrey --; The Philosophy of Modern Dance, from Europa (1933); Mary Wigman --; Section Six~The Extension of the Classical Tradition; The Construction of the Lesson, from Basic Principles of Classical Ballet (Leningrad, 1934); Agrippina Vaganova --; Our Point of View, from The Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow, 1960); Yuri Slonimsky --; A Conversation, from Covent Garden Book (1964); Frederick Ashton --; Talk About New Ballets, from Dance Magazine (1966); Antony Tudor --; Dances at a Gathering, from Dance Magazine (1969); Jerome Robbins --; Work in Progress, from Intellectua; Digest (1972); George Balanchine --; Section Seven~Recent Rebels; Two Questions and Five Dances, from Dance Perspectives (1968); Merce Cunningham --; Plan for a Television Production of "Tent," from Dance Perspectives (1971); Alwin Nikolais --; "Vessel": An Opera Epic, from The Drama Review (1972); Meredith Monk
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