The Dancers World 1920 1945

Author : M. Huxley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137439211
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancer's World, 1920 - 1945 written by M. Huxley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists, choreographers, dance students and scholars alike.

Author : Carol Brown
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522385
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles written by Carol Brown and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If much of what we teach and come to know from within the disciplinary regime of Dance Studies is founded on a certain kind of mastery, what scope is there to challenge, criticize and undo this knowledge from within the academy, as well as through productive encounters with its margins? This volume contributes to a growing discourse on the potential of dance and dancers to affect change, politics and situational awareness, as well as to traverse disciplinary boundaries. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking through its organisation into ‘movements’ and ‘stumbles’, reinforcing its theme through its structure as well as its content, addressing contemporary dance and performance practices and pedagogies from a range of research perspectives and registers. Turbulent and vertiginous events on the world stage necessitate new ways of thinking and acting. This book makes strides towards a new kind of research which creates alternative modes for perceiving, experiencing and making. Through writings and images, its contributions offer different perspectives on how to rethink disciplinarity through choreographic practices, somatics, a reimagining of dance techniques, indigenous ontologies, choreopolitics, critical dance pedagogies and visual performance languages.

Author : Victoria Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190610360
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martha Graham's Cold War written by Victoria Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013, titled Strange commodity of cultural exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987.

Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108171281
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Blood written by Edward Ross Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms, parliamentary debates, and exasperated denunciations even from progressive art critics. He shows how modern dance spoke in multiple registers - as religious and as scientific; as redemptively chaste and scandalously sensual; as elitist and popular. He reveals the connections between modern dance and changing gender relations and family dynamics, imperialism, racism, and cultural exchanges with the wider non-European world, and new conceptions of selfhood. Ultimately the book finds in these complex and often contradictory connections a new way of understanding the power of modernism and modernity and their capacity to revolutionize and transform the modern world in the momentous, creative, violent middle decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Ramsay Burt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042985594X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance, Modernism, and Modernity written by Ramsay Burt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H’Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers’ responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.

Author : C. Kempshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137491760
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First World War in Computer Games written by C. Kempshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through computer games. This book explores how computer games are at the forefront of new representations of the First World War.

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315306530
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies written by Helen Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.

Author : C. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137497505
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Influence and Inheritance in Feminist English Studies written by C. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies through six distinct, individual pieces of rigorous and innovative new work.

Author : T. Hill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137511567
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Caregiving in Aging Populations written by T. Hill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, friends, and other relatives, as well as by members of racial, ethnic, and sexual minority groups.

Author : Debra Reddin van Tuyll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137513314
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy written by Debra Reddin van Tuyll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, several newspapers remained Confederate sympathizers despite their locations being occupied by Union troops. Examining these papers, the authors explore what methods of suppression occupiers used, how occupation influenced the editorial and business sides of the press, and how occupation impacted freedom of the press.