Beschreibung:
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.
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