Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781138313033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 226 str.

Ramsay Burt; Michael Huxley

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This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity, by examining the way in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.

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List of illustrations  Foreword - Claire Warden  Acknowledgements  PART I  1. Introduction: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity  2. Dance and Modernism: A Historiographical Consideration  3. Dance and Modernism: Natural Dancing and Modernity  4. Dance and Modernism: Transnational Currents  PART II  5. Wassily Kandinsky, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Modernism 1908-1914  6. Breaking into the Male Modernist World: Akarova and Margaret Morris  7. Modernist Dance, War, and Modernity: Isadora Duncan and La Marseillaise  8. The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss, Ballet and Modernity  9. The New Ballet: Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas and the Loss of Gesture  10. Hanya Holm: a Modernist Pioneer  11. Modernity, Ritual and Diasporic Culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka  Afterword  Index