Will modern dance survive?: lessons to be learned from the pioneers and unsung visionaries of modern dance
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Lewiston [u.a.]
Mellen
2002
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| Series: | Studies in dance
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-517) and index -- Filmography: p. 518-520 |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 534 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0773471154 |
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| adam_text | WILL MODERN DANCE SURVIVE?
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE PIONEERS
AND UNSUNG VISIONARIES OF MODERN DANCE
Beth Soil
Studies in Dance
Volume 3
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston*Queenston*Lampeter
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations i
Preface by Elizabeth Kendall Hi
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Chapter Outline 6
A Discussion of Modem 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 Modem 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 Modem 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 Modem 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
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