What is Dance?: Readings in Theory and CriticismA wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance andthe Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society. |
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Contents
WHAT IS DANCE? | 1 |
JEANGEORGES NOVERRE | 10 |
JOHN MARTIN | 22 |
SUSANNE K LANGER | 28 |
ANDRE LEVINSON | 47 |
Philosophy of the Dance | 55 |
THE DANCE MEDIUM | 103 |
STEPHANE MALLARME | 111 |
PostModern Dance | 325 |
Notes on Music and Dance | 336 |
R P BLACKMUR | 354 |
ANNA KISSELGOFF | 361 |
LANGUAGE NOTATION | 367 |
Dance Notation and Choreology | 390 |
From Languages of | 399 |
JACK ANDERSON | 410 |
FRANK KERMODE | 145 |
Primitivism Modernism and Dance Theory | 161 |
DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS | 185 |
Martha Grahams Journey | 197 |
Music and Action | 203 |
BERNARD SHAW | 215 |
GENRE AND STYLE | 225 |
Ballet | 238 |
ADRIAN STOKES | 244 |
A K VOLINSKY | 255 |
Modern Dance | 262 |
Mind and Medium in the Modern Dance | 289 |
MARY WIGMAN | 296 |
Merce Cunningham and the Politics of Perception | 307 |
DANCE CRITICISM | 421 |
THEOPHILE GAUTIER | 431 |
The Art and Meaning of Isadora Duncan | 438 |
Anna Pavlowa 1920 | 445 |
Monumental Martha | 456 |
DANCE AND SOCIETY | 473 |
From The Elizabethan World Picture | 497 |
ROGER COPELAND | 515 |
RUTH KATZ | 521 |
JOANN KEALIINOHOMOKU | 533 |
ELIZABETH KENDALL | 550 |
| 561 | |
| 573 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | What is Dance?: Readings in Theory and Criticism ACLS Humanities E-Book Volume 720 of Galaxy books Oxford paperbacks : dance, arts |
| Editors | Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen |
| Contributor | Marshall Cohen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1983 |
| ISBN | 0195031970, 9780195031973 |
| Length | 582 pages |
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