What is dance? : readings in theory and criticism
Roger Copeland (Editor), Marshall Cohen (Editor)
A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society
Print Book, English, 1983
Oxford University Press, Oxford [Oxfordshire], 1983
xvi, 582 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780195031973, 9780195032178, 0195031970, 0195032179
8785588
[Part] I : What is dance?
From Letters on dancing and ballets / Jean-Georges Noverre
Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen
Dance as a means of communication : from The dance / John Martin
Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis : from The modern Dance / J. Martin
Virtual powers ; The magic circle : from Feeling and form / Susanne K. Langer
The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / André Levinson
Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valéry
Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman
Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin
Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott. [Part] II : The dance medium
Ballets / Stéphane Mallarmé
Le sacre du printemps / Jacques Rivière
Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin
Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode
Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen
Puppet theatre / Heinrich von Kleist. [Part] III : Dance and the other arts
From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner
Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley
Music and action / Constant Lambert
The purisim of Étienne Decroux / Eric Bentley
from Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw
Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff. [Part] IV : Genre and style
Ballet. Classic ballet : Aria of the aeriel / Lincoln Kirstein ; The classic ballet : from Tonight the ballet / Adrian Stokes ; The vertical : the fundamental principle of classical dance : from The book of exultation / A.K. Volinksy
Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine
Modern dance. The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan ; The sexual idiom : from Apology for dancing / Rayner Heppenstall ; Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katharine Gilbert ; My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman ; Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / Roger Copeland
Post-modern dance. A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Yvonne Rainer ; Running out of breath / Tom Johnson ; Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich
Style. Problems of definition : from Next week, Swan Lake / Selma Jeanne Cohen ; The swan in Zurich / R.P. Blackmur ; There is nothing "national" about ballet style / Anna Kisselgoff ; Classic and romantic ballet : from Ballet alphabet / Lincoln Kirstein. [Part] V : Language, notation, and identity
Language and languages : from The principles of art / Robin G. Collingwood
Art as language / Joseph Margolis
Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall
The role of notation : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman
Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson. [Part] VI : Dance criticism
Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / Théophile Gautier
The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / André Levinson
Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl van Vechten
Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto barocco) / Edwin Denby
Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt
Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce. [Part] VII
The art of dancing : from The dance of life / Havelock Ellis
The cosmic dance : from The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard
From Ritual to art : from Ancient art and ritual / Jane Harrison
The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon
Striptease / Roland Barthes
Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland
The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz
An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku
A possible grace : from Where she danced / Elizabeth Kendall
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