Dancing and mixed media : early twentieth-century modern dance theory in text and photography /

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Author / Creator:Alter, Judith B.
Imprint:New York : P. Lang, c1994.
Description:xiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New studies in aesthetics vol. 17
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1691161
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ISBN:0820421677 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cultural Forces Influencing Dancing
  • 2. The Dancer-Writers and Their Books
  • 3. Dancing in Its Social and Historical Contexts
  • 4. The Body, Movement, and Dance Movement
  • 5. Natural Dance Composition, Its Performance, and Its Relation to the Other Arts
  • 6. Exercise Systems and Technique for Dancing
  • 7. Dance Education
  • 8. Early Twentieth-Century Modern Dance Theory
  • 9. Books and Dance Books
  • 10. Photography and Dance Photography
  • Appendix: Raymond Duncan's "The Dance and Gymnastics"