The Modern Dance (eBook)

Seven Statements of Belief

Selma Jeanne Cohen (Herausgeber)

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2011
112 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7093-2 (ISBN)

Autor

Trained in modern dance and ballet, and educated at the University of Chicago from which she holds a Ph.D., SELMA JEANNE COHEN occupies a unique place in the dance world as editor of Dance Perspectives. She is also director of the National Regional Ballet Association and the American Society for Aesthetics, and a member of the Dance Panel for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities. Cohen is the author of Next Week, Swan Lake (Wesleyan, 1982) and she edited and completed Doris Humphrey, An Artist First: An Autobiography (Wesleyan, 1972). Most recently, she was founding editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance (1998).

Inhalt

Introduction: The Caterpillar's Question
José Limón: An American Accent
Anna Sokolow: The Rebel and the Bourgeois
Erick Hawkins: Pure Poetry
Donald McKayle: The Act of Theatre
Alwin Nikolais: No Man From Mars
Pauline Koner: Intrinsic Dance
Paul Taylor: Down With Choreography
Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 24 illus.
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Schlagworte: Dance
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-7093-1 / 0819570931
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7093-2 / 9780819570932