CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.
The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief
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"Editor Selma Jeanne Cohen 'turned on' seven prominent choreographers to write what their art meant to them. Each was to set forth his or her ideas on the modern dance and then to describe what he [or she] would do if commissioned to compose a dance that had to deal with the theme of the Prodigal Son... With the help of these pre-established foci, the essays actually amount to a documentary on the modern dance at mid-century as seen by its practitioners." --Herta Pauly, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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"I am always amazed at how well the modern dancers are able to express themselves in words, and the seven chosen for this book are no exception. These are artists with a strong point of view, and what they have to say is worth reading. [This] will appeal to professionals and laymen alike." (Ruth Page )
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Like most of the new artistic modes at the beginning of the twentieth century, modern dance took the established norms prevalent at the time and broke them into pieces. Yet over the years, modern dance itself became fragmented and could not be recognized as the unified form of balletic opposition it had once been. Not only did modern dance change, but people's ideas about what modern was also changed. This book consists of seven different third generation modern dance choreographers describing their seven different beliefs of what modern dance really is. From Anna Sokolow's ideas of rebellion to Alwin Nikolais' ideas of abstraction, these written testaments to the lives of the some of the most innovative and important choreographers of the century allow us to see what lies behind dance and to gain insight into what modern dance was, is, and can be.
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- A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960 by Gay Morris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality by Ramsay Burt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance by Mindy Aloff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dancing Female (Choreography and Dance Studies Series) by Sharon E. Friedler on page 11
- East Meets West in Dance: Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue (Choreography and Dance Studies Series) by John Solomon on page 33
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