Martin, John  1893-1985 <br/><br/>
The dance :  the story of the dance told in pictures and text /  
by John Martin. 
 - New York :  Tudor Pub. Co.,  ©1946.  
 - 160 p :  illustrations ;  28 x 22 cm  
<br/><br/> Includes index.  
<br/><br/> Part 1: Basic Dance /  Part 2: Dance for the Sake of Dance /  Part 3: Dance as Spectacle /  Part 4: Dance as a Means of Communication /  Part 5: Dance in the Technological Era /  Variation in Form ; Basic Music --  Folk Dancing ; The Cycle of Ballroom Dancing --  The Court Ballet ; The Ballet Becomes Professional ; Noverre and the "Ballet of Action" ; The Romantic Revolution ; Nineteenth Century Decline ; Fokine Reawakens the Ballet ; The Ballet Russe in the Western World ; Pavlova and Nijinsky ; Diaghileff and the International Period ; Leonide Massine ; Bronislava Nijinska ; Balanchine and American Ballet ; A Non-Russian Era Dawns ; Antony Tudor and Neo-Romanticism ; American Roots --  Isadora Duncan ; Densihawn ; Mary Wigman ; Hanya Holm ; Second Generation ; Doris Humphrey ; Charles Weidman ; Martha Graham ; Helen Tamiris ; Third Generation ; Negro Dance --  The Field of Motion Picture ; Fred Astaire ; Gene Kelly. 
<br/><br/> "Traces the development of dance from its primitive beginnings, through folk and early ballroom dancing, court and modern ballet, pageants and spectacles, to the latest forms. Includes a chapter on dance in films." -- Worldcat 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>007579869  UK 002400592  UK 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dance<br/>Dancers
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1781  / .M33 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.8  / MAR