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Milestones in Dance in the USA

Milestones in Dance in the USA
Author: Elizabeth McPherson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000685322

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Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced, unacknowledged, and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice, intersectional feminism, protest movements, and economic conditions, as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance, vernacular dance, ritual dance, and the convergence of these forms, the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States.


Martha Graham's Cold War

Martha Graham's Cold War
Author: Victoria Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190610360

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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.


Dance on Its Own Terms

Dance on Its Own Terms
Author: Melanie Bales
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199939985

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Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplines outside dance. Individual chapters serve as case studies that are further organized into three categories of significant dance activity: performance and reconstruction, pedagogy and choreographic process, and notational and other written forms that analyze and document dance. The breadth of the content reflects the richness and vibrancy of the dance field; each deeply informed examination serves as a window opening onto the larger world of dance. Conceptually, each chapter also raises concerns and questions that point to broadly inclusive methodological applications. Engaging and insightful, Dance on its Own Terms represents a major contribution to research on dance.


The Bennington School of the Dance

The Bennington School of the Dance
Author: Elizabeth McPherson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786474173

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The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, faculty, and students. Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly's previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions. The Bennington School of the Dance held classes from 1934 through 1942 at Bennington College in Vermont, with one summer spent at Mills College in California. Its effects were far-reaching in the development and dissemination of modern dance as an original American art form. The school produced unique choreographic works by teachers in residence: Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Leading choreographers of the later 20th century such as Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin, Jose Limon, Alwin Nikolais and Anna Sokolow participated at the school. The largest portion of students were high school and college level teachers who would spread modern dance across the country and abroad.


The American Indian Experience

The American Indian Experience
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761363629

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Supplemented with quotes and engaging articles from USA TODAY, the Nation’s No. 1 Newspaper, The American Indian Experience shines a spotlight on American Indians and their many exciting contributions to American society. From artists and athletes to religious leaders and chefs, American Indians enrich American life. Novelists such as Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie offer enlightening and often humorous glimpses into their life experiences and tribal traditions. Super athlete Jim Thorpe excelled in track-and-field as well as numerous other sports, breaking down cultural barriers to earn gold medals in the pentathalon and the decathalon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. SuAnne Big Crow displayed amazing skills as a basketball player for the Lady Thorpes, her South Dakota high school’s team. She became a legend in 1988, when she performed the Lakota Sioux shawl dance on the court in Lead, South Dakota, silencing the crowd who had been shouting anti-American Indian slurs. Buffy Sainte-Marie became one of the nation’s best known folksingers, while actor-musician Floyd Westerman captivated audiences in the groundbreaking 1990 film Dances with Wolves. Read this informative title to learn more about how American Indians contribute to the United States’ cultural mosaic, enriching our nation with a wide range of traditions, customs, and life experiences.


A History of Dance in American Higher Education

A History of Dance in American Higher Education
Author: Thomas K. Hagood
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Dance
ISBN: 9780773477995

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This work traces the history of the university in western culture from its origins in medieval Europe to its evolution in America with a focus on events and circumstances that made possible the inclusion of dance as an academic discipline.


Beyond the Surface

Beyond the Surface
Author: Michelle Grant-Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781465235206

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Beyond the Surface: an Inclusive American Dance History

Beyond the Surface: an Inclusive American Dance History
Author: Michelle Grant-Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-28
Genre: African American choreographers
ISBN: 9781465260635

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"The aim of this book is to first engage dance academia in the core principles of what is American dance. Secondly, its objective is to empower emerging artists, students, and the general public to embrace American dance, utilizing historical evidence to pay homage to its ancient forms - forms that have shaped the foundations of American culture. Its final intent is to inspire new dance forms"--Preface, pages vii-viii.


25 Years of American Dance

25 Years of American Dance
Author: Dance magazine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1954
Genre:
ISBN:

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Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education

Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education
Author: Doug Risner
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476667179

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The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance educators in the studio, on stage, in recreation centers and correctional facilities, and on social media are explored, accompanied by activities for humanizing dance pedagogy. These challenges converge from educational policies and mandates developed over the past two decades, including teacher-proof "scripted" curriculum, high-stakes testing, standardization, and methods-centered teacher preparation; difficulties are often perpetuated by those who want to make change happen but do not know how.