Creative Movement & Dance
by Maria Elena Garcia, Marcia Plevin, and Patrizia Macagno
This book presents Creative Movement as a discipline whose aim is to rediscover how to profoundly listen to our bodies and to develop, through the means of improvisation, the body's expressive and creative potential. The first two parts of the book analyse the theoretical and practical fundamentals of the method as well as the most important didactic applications. The third part explains the use of the method and concerns the training of dancers and teachers. Since 2001, Creative Movement has be...
Black Queer Dance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Mark Broomfield
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden Co-Artistic Directors of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director of Evidence. Black Queer Dance examines one of the most visible crucibles for masculinity—the male dancer...
Dance Composition (Performance Books) (Ballet, Dance, Opera and Music)
by Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard
In Dance Composition, renowned dance educator Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard provides an accessible and practical guide to creative success in dance making. Now in its fourth edition, this classic introduction to the art of choreography-with a valuable emphasis on form and movement-is useful for all those who are interested in dance composition.
Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now
by Jamie Shearn Coan
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book illuminates Sokolow's statements for workers' rights, anti-racism, and the human condition through her ch...
Laban's The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human move-ment. When he died, Laban was in the process of preparing a new edition of the book, and so for some time after his death it was out of print. That a second edition appeared was solely due to the efforts of Lisa Ullmann, who, better than any other person, was aware of the changes that Laban had intended to make. The rather broader treatment of th...
Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange
by Assistant Professor of Dance Clare Croft
The Architect-Walker is Wrights & Sites' anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it. It is a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention. A few suggestions and observations from the book include: Build something, however small, that is not allowed; Un-pave your garden. Make a hedgehog run under the fence; Crawl more; Protect what gaps you can. They aren't empty. They aren't yours; In a group and in bright sunlight, carry sticks and timbers. Only pay attention to the shad...
Zkm Digital Arts Edition / Special Issue: William Forsythe - Improvisation Technologies
by Roslyn Sulcas
New York-born William Forsythe, one of the leading choreographers of our time, has brought about a paradigm shift in contemporary dance. The vocabulary of his choreography redefines body, space, time, and movement. In 1994, the ZKM/Center for Art and Media co-operated with Forsythe to produce a "digital dance school" in the form of an interactive computer installation, intended for the professional use of the dancers of Frankfurt Ballet. Revealing to the viewer the technologies of improvisation...
Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House. In opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, brief memoirs, blog posts, and contemplations on...
Tango Argentino Piccolo Breviario per i suoi Ballerini
by Patricia Müller
The Y located at 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City is the largest and oldest continuously operating YM-YWHA in the US. Many of the most important figures in modern dance premiered on its stage, but until now no one has thought to ask why this should have been so. As Naomi Jackson shows in Converging Movements, the Y's particular conception of Jewishness laid the groundwork for the establishment of a center for dance in the 1930s. William Kolodney, who served as the Y's education...
Dance Writings
by Edwin Denby, Robert Cornfield, and William MacKay
Edwin Denby (1903-1983) was the most important and influential American dance critic of the 20th century. His reviews and essays were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. As dance critic, first for "Modern Music" and then for the "New York Herald Tribune", Denby permanently changed the way we think and talk about dance. This volume presents his reviews from "Modern Music" and the "Tribune" in chronological order, providing not only a picture of ho...