Chronicles of the American dance : from the Shakers to Martha Graham / edited by Paul Magriel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Da Capo paperbackPublication details: New York : Da Capo Press, 1978, ©1948.Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: xii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0306800829
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 MAG
LOC classification:
  • GV1623 .M33 1978b
Contents:
HISTORICAL ASPECTS : The dance in Shaker ritual / by E.D. Andrews -- John Durang: the first American dancer / by Lillian Moore -- Juba and American minsrelsy / by Marian Hannah Winter -- The black crook and the white fawn / by George Freedley -- The Dodworth Family and ballroom dancing in New York / by Rosetta O'Neill -- THE CLASSIC DANCERS : Mary Ann Lee: first American Giselle / by Lillian Moore -- Augusta Maywood / by Marian Hannah Winter -- George Washington Smith / by Lillian Moore -- AMERICAN INNOVATORS : Isadora Duncan / by William Bolitho -- Loie Fuller: the fairy of light / by Clare de Morinni -- Maud Allan / by Carl Van Vechten -- The Denishawn era (1914-1931) / by Baird Hastings -- The recent theater of Martha Graham / by Robert Horan.
Summary: "The dance has had a long history on the American continent. Before the New World was "discovered," there was dancing in the Mexico of Montezuma and the pueblos of the Southwest. Countless centuries before he Spanish invader brought the horse to the Great Plains, the unmounted, pedestrian tribes danced for the hunt, the wa, and for medicine. When Virginia and Florida were explored in the sixteenth century, French and English adventurers sketched the ceremonials they witnessed and left descriptions that have come down to us today." -- Preface.
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HISTORICAL ASPECTS : The dance in Shaker ritual / by E.D. Andrews -- John Durang: the first American dancer / by Lillian Moore -- Juba and American minsrelsy / by Marian Hannah Winter -- The black crook and the white fawn / by George Freedley -- The Dodworth Family and ballroom dancing in New York / by Rosetta O'Neill -- THE CLASSIC DANCERS : Mary Ann Lee: first American Giselle / by Lillian Moore -- Augusta Maywood / by Marian Hannah Winter -- George Washington Smith / by Lillian Moore -- AMERICAN INNOVATORS : Isadora Duncan / by William Bolitho -- Loie Fuller: the fairy of light / by Clare de Morinni -- Maud Allan / by Carl Van Vechten -- The Denishawn era (1914-1931) / by Baird Hastings -- The recent theater of Martha Graham / by Robert Horan.

"The dance has had a long history on the American continent. Before the New World was "discovered," there was dancing in the Mexico of Montezuma and the pueblos of the Southwest. Countless centuries before he Spanish invader brought the horse to the Great Plains, the unmounted, pedestrian tribes danced for the hunt, the wa, and for medicine. When Virginia and Florida were explored in the sixteenth century, French and English adventurers sketched the ceremonials they witnessed and left descriptions that have come down to us today." -- Preface.

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