Acts of light : Martha Graham in the twenty-first century / photographs by John Deane ; text by Nan Deane Cano.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2006.Description: xv, 103 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0813029929 (alk. paper)
  • 9780813029924 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.8092 GRA
LOC classification:
  • GV1786.M37 D43 2006
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Contents:
Introduction -- American Vision : 1. Appalachian Spring -- Blood Memory : 2. Cave of the Heart ; 3. Night Journey ; 4. Phaedra ; 5. Errand into the Maze ; 6. Circe -- Archetypes Sacred and Profane : 7. Dark Meadow ; 8. Embattled Garden ; 9. Primitive Mysteries ; 10. El Penitente -- Woman's Voices: Pain : 11. Deep Song ; 12. Lamentation -- Woman's Voices: Courage : 13. Herodiade ; 14. Deaths and Entrances ; 15. "Spectre-1914," from Sketches from Chronicle -- Woman's Voices : Joy 16. Diversion of Angels ; 17. Satyric Festival Song -- Woman's Voices: Creation : 18. Acts of Light -- Imagined Wing: Dancer's Voices.
Summary: "The images in Acts of Light are the result of John Deane's unprecedented access as a promotional photographer for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The first book to comprehensively survey Graham's dances in full color digital photography, it also features personal interviews with this new generation of Graham interpreters, who reflect on their own lives, the meaning each dance has for them personally, and the Graham technique in frank and touching style." -- Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 103).

Introduction -- American Vision : 1. Appalachian Spring -- Blood Memory : 2. Cave of the Heart ; 3. Night Journey ; 4. Phaedra ; 5. Errand into the Maze ; 6. Circe -- Archetypes Sacred and Profane : 7. Dark Meadow ; 8. Embattled Garden ; 9. Primitive Mysteries ; 10. El Penitente -- Woman's Voices: Pain : 11. Deep Song ; 12. Lamentation -- Woman's Voices: Courage : 13. Herodiade ; 14. Deaths and Entrances ; 15. "Spectre-1914," from Sketches from Chronicle -- Woman's Voices : Joy 16. Diversion of Angels ; 17. Satyric Festival Song -- Woman's Voices: Creation : 18. Acts of Light -- Imagined Wing: Dancer's Voices.

"The images in Acts of Light are the result of John Deane's unprecedented access as a promotional photographer for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The first book to comprehensively survey Graham's dances in full color digital photography, it also features personal interviews with this new generation of Graham interpreters, who reflect on their own lives, the meaning each dance has for them personally, and the Graham technique in frank and touching style." -- Jacket.

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