Lester Horton, Modern Dance Pioneer
Author | : Larry Warren |
Publisher | : New York : M. Dekker |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Choreographers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Larry Warren |
Publisher | : New York : M. Dekker |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Choreographers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marjorie B. Perces |
Publisher | : Dance Horizons |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A guide to the principles of dance and training developed by Lester Horton. It includes a foreword by Alvin Ailey, reminiscences of early Lester Horton technique by Bella Lewitzky, and a three-dimensional portrait of the life and work of Lester Horton by Jana Frances-Fischer.
Author | : Joshua Legg |
Publisher | : Dance Horizons |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780871273253 |
Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --
Author | : Bradley Shelver |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Modern dance |
ISBN | : 9781482392784 |
A Performance link between the Biography of Lester Horton and his Dance Technique. Bradley Shelver explores the training and performance potentials of Horton's Technique. Through his own experiences with dancing and teaching, Shelver explains the benefits and comparisons between the Horton Technique and other dance training tools. With photographs by Torben Rasmussen, the book gives a detailed glimpse of the past and future of the Dance Technique of Lester Horton. Introduction is written by Ana Marie Forsythe.
Author | : Amber Barbee Pickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781736238004 |
Blooming in Motion Coloring Book is a celebration of Black history in the performing arts through dance. Each original illustration of black dance legends pays tribute to their sacrifice, perseverance, fearlessness, discipline, and eternal resilience in their life's journey through dance. Each illustration feature of the dancers is creatively shown in dance motion with flowers in bloom for a coloring picture of celebration.
Author | : Larry Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia L. Foulkes |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2003-11-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0807862029 |
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 whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
Author | : Thomas DeFrantz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195301717 |
He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--Jacket.
Author | : Jacqueline Shea Murphy |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 1452913439 |
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author | : Susan Manning |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780816637362 |
Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.