Will Modern Dance Survive?
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7734-7115-3 (ISBN)
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This book defines and describes modern dance and then discusses the prognosis for its future. The purpose here is to address the questions of whether the original nature of modern dance and the achievements within the field during the first half of the twentieth century are now being abandoned, or whether the modern dance tradition will continue to develop.
List of Illustrations i Preface by Elizabeth Kendall iii Foreword vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Chapter Outline 6 A Discussion of Modern Dance from a Personal Perspective 14 Childhood 15 Adolescence 28 Discovering My Metier 35 Adulthood 39 Approaches to Choreography 41 Modern Dance and Spirituality 54 Visionary Tenacity and Joy in the Work 62 Chapter One: Modern Dance: An Historical Perspective 67 What is Modern Dance? 67 The Forerunners 73 The Pioneers and the Bennington Visionaries 92 Mid-Twentieth Century Unsung Visionaries 99 Transitional Choreographers 100 Postmodernism: The Avant-Garde Movement of the Sixties 111 Additional Theoretical Considerations 115 Chapter Two: Mid-Twentieth Century Unsung Visionaries of Modern Dance 125 The Unsung Visionaries of my Childhood 126 Experimental Approaches to Dance 130 Anti-Subjectivity and Misogyny 134 Helen Tamiris and Charles Weidman 140 The Rejection of the European Modern Dancers 146 Unsung Visionaries of the Third Generation 149 African-American Choreographers 167 General Thoughts on the Importance of Unsung Visionaries 172 Chapter Three: The Sixties: The Impact of the Experimentalists 181 A Brief Discussion of the Definition of Postmodernism 181 Joyous Experimentation 187 The Community, the Body, and the Self within a Postmodern Ideology: Anna Halprin, Barbara Mettler, and Simone Forti 190 The Rejection of Illusionism 197 Postmodern Expressiveness 204 A Revolution Sabotaged? 209 Sixties fun and what happened later 210 Postmodern commercialism 212 Postmodern interest in the quotidian and consequent problems 228 Postmodern ambivalence about movement vocabulary 229 Revolutionary dogmatism, self-indulgent emotionalism, and infantile grunge 235 Sixties Artists in the Nineties 237 The Legacy of the Experimentalist Era 241 Chapter Four: The Unsung Visionaries of the Post-Sixties Era 251 Subjectivity, Femininity, and Visionary Integrity 253 The Visionary Spirit and Childhood 257 Critical Ruminations Regarding My Choreography 263 The Current Generation of Under-acknowledged Choreographers 276 The Interviewees: Their Lives and Their Work 287 Elizabeth Kendall and Dance Criticism 329 Summary: Do We Need Unsung Visionaries? 334 Chapter Five: An Evaluation of the Modern Dance of the Seventies, Eighties, and Early Nineties 337 Funding, Popularity, and Changing Standards 339 Mainstream Modern Dance at the End of the Twentieth Century 353 The Senior Generation 355 The current established modern dance artists 366 Stimulating influences from abroad 402 Butoh dance 407 Summary 410 Chapter Six: The New Generation: The Situation Now and the Prognosis for the Future 413 Troubles in the Nineties and Beyond 420 Critical Old Folks and Signs of Hope Among the Young 447 A Sampling of Contemporary Choreographers and their Work 454 Contemporary trends: repertory companies and idiosyncratic visions 474 Hong Kong Dance Festivals: Summer 1997 479 Summary 490 Conclusion 499 Bibliography 507 Index 521
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Dance S. ; v. 3 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Ill. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7734-7115-4 / 0773471154 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7734-7115-3 / 9780773471153 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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