Modern Bodies Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey

Name: Modern Bodies Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
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ISBN: 9780807853672

ISBN-10: 0807853674

ISBN-13: 9780807853672

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julia L. Foulkes

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In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Manifestos



Pioneer Women



Primitive Moderns



Men Must Dance



Organizing Dance



Dancing America



Dance in War


Coda: The Revelations of Alvin Ailey


Notes


Bibliography


Index