Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences

ISBN-13: 9783718655588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 176 str.

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn;Partsch-Bergsoh

Opis

Discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. This work examines the phenomena of the modern dance movement between 1920 and 1968 in an international context, focusing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy.

Spis treści

Chapter I Breaking through to Modernity; Chapter II The Formative Years: the Twenties; Chapter III First Encounters Across The Atlantic; Chapter IV Dance in the Tide of Politics: The Thirties; Chapter V Dance in the Shadow of World War II; chapter VI Dance Following World War II; chapter VII From The Green Table;

O autorze

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn was a former student of May Wigman at the Music Academy in Leipzig during World War II. She completed her diploma in dance pedagogy and choreography under Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang-School, Essen, Germany. The author was Professor of Dance at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is now on the board of the Faculty of Fine Arts. She has also taught courses in European modem dance at the American Dance Festival at Duke University, North Carolina, at the Laban Centre in London, and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York.