What is dance? : readings in theory and criticism / [edited by] Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.Description: xvi, 582 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0195031970 (pbk.)
  • 9780195031973 (pbk.)
  • 0195032179
  • 9780195032178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.801 COP
LOC classification:
  • GV1599 .W47 1983
Online resources:
Contents:
I. WHAT IS DANCE : From Letters on dancing and ballets: Letter 1 / Jean-Georges Noverre - Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen -- From The dance: Dance as a means of communication / John Martin -- From The modern Dance: Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis / John Martin -- From Feeling and Form: Virtual powers ; The magic circle / Susanne K. Langer -- The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / André Levinson -- Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valéry -- From Languages of Art: Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration / Nelson Goodman -- Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin -- Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott -- II. THE DANCE MEDIUM : Ballets / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Le sacre du printemps / Jacques Rivière -- Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin -- Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode -- Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen -- Puppet theatre / Heinrich von Kleist -- III. DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS : From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner -- Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley -- Music and action / Constant Lambert -- The purisim of Étienne Decroux / Eric Bentley -- From Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw -- Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff -- IV. GENRE AND STYLE - BALLET : Classic ballet: Aria of the aeriel / Lincoln Kirstein -- From Tonight the Ballet: The classic ballet / Adrian Stokes -- From The book of Exultation: The vertical: the fundamental principle of classical dance / A.K. Volinksy -- Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine -- MODERN DANCE : The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan -- From Apology for dancing: The sexual idiom / Rayner Heppenstall -- Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katharine Gilbert -- My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman -- Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / Roger Copeland -- POST-MODERN DANCE : A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Yvonne Rainer -- Running out of breath / Tom Johnson -- Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich -- STYLE : From Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections and Dance and Dances: Problems of definition/ Selma Jeanne Cohen -- The swan in Zurich / R.P. Blackmur -- There is nothing "national" about ballet style / Anna Kisselgoff -- From Ballet Alphabet: Classic and romantic ballet / Lincoln Kirstein -- V. LANGUAGE, NOTATION, AND IDENTITY : From The principles of Art: Language and languages / Robin G. Collingwood -- Art as language / Joseph Margolis -- Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall -- From Languages of Art: The role of notation / Nelson Goodman -- Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson -- VI. DANCE CRITICISM : Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / Théophile Gautier -- The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / André Levinson -- Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl van Vechten -- Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto Barocco) / Edwin Denby -- Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt -- Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce -- VII. DANCE AND SOCIETY : From The dance of life: The art of dancing / Havelock Ellis -- From The Elizabethan world picture: The cosmic dance / E.M.W. Tillyard -- From Ancient Art and Ritual: From Ritual to art / Jane Harrison -- The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon -- Striptease / Roland Barthes -- Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland -- The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz -- An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku -- A possible grace : from Where she danced / Elizabeth Kendall.
Summary: "A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society." -- WorldCat
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 561-567.

I. WHAT IS DANCE : From Letters on dancing and ballets: Letter 1 / Jean-Georges Noverre - Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen --
From The dance: Dance as a means of communication / John Martin -- From The modern Dance: Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis / John Martin -- From Feeling and Form: Virtual powers ; The magic circle / Susanne K. Langer -- The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / André Levinson --
Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valéry -- From Languages of Art: Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration / Nelson Goodman -- Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin --
Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott -- II. THE DANCE MEDIUM : Ballets / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Le sacre du printemps / Jacques Rivière -- Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin -- Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode -- Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen -- Puppet theatre / Heinrich von Kleist -- III. DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS : From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner -- Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley -- Music and action / Constant Lambert -- The purisim of Étienne Decroux / Eric Bentley -- From Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw -- Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff -- IV. GENRE AND STYLE - BALLET : Classic ballet: Aria of the aeriel / Lincoln Kirstein -- From Tonight the Ballet: The classic ballet / Adrian Stokes -- From The book of Exultation: The vertical: the fundamental principle of classical dance / A.K. Volinksy -- Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine -- MODERN DANCE : The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan -- From Apology for dancing: The sexual idiom / Rayner Heppenstall -- Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katharine Gilbert -- My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman -- Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / Roger Copeland -- POST-MODERN DANCE : A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Yvonne Rainer -- Running out of breath / Tom Johnson -- Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich -- STYLE : From Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections and Dance and Dances: Problems of definition/ Selma Jeanne Cohen -- The swan in Zurich / R.P. Blackmur -- There is nothing "national" about ballet style / Anna Kisselgoff -- From Ballet Alphabet: Classic and romantic ballet / Lincoln Kirstein -- V. LANGUAGE, NOTATION, AND IDENTITY : From The principles of Art: Language and languages / Robin G. Collingwood -- Art as language / Joseph Margolis -- Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall -- From Languages of Art: The role of notation / Nelson Goodman -- Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson -- VI. DANCE CRITICISM : Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / Théophile Gautier -- The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / André Levinson -- Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl van Vechten -- Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto Barocco) / Edwin Denby -- Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt -- Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce -- VII. DANCE AND SOCIETY : From The dance of life: The art of dancing / Havelock Ellis -- From The Elizabethan world picture: The cosmic dance / E.M.W. Tillyard -- From Ancient Art and Ritual: From Ritual to art / Jane Harrison -- The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon -- Striptease / Roland Barthes -- Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland -- The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz -- An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku -- A possible grace : from Where she danced / Elizabeth Kendall.

"A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society." -- WorldCat

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