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Dance in America: a reader's anthology
Publisher
Library of America
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
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Contributors
Acocella, Joan Ross contributor
Aloff, Mindy editor
Anderson, Jack contributor
Auden, W.H. contributor
Baker, Josephine contributor
Aloff, Mindy editor
Anderson, Jack contributor
Auden, W.H. contributor
Baker, Josephine contributor
Balanchine, George contributor
Balliett, Whitney contributor
Barnes, Clive contributor
Barnett, Lincoln contributor
Baryshnikov, Mikhail contributor
Black Elk contributor
Boris, Ruthanna contributor
Brown, Carolyn contributor
Brubach, Holly contributor
Cable, George Washington contributor
Caines, Christopher contributor
Collins, Janet contributor
Crane, Hart contributor
Croce, Arlene contributor
Cunningham, Merce contributor
Dalva, Nancy contributor
De Mille, Agnes contributor
Denby, Edwin contributor
Dickens, Charles contributor
Dickinson, Emily contributor
Duncan, Isadora contributor
Dunham, Katherine contributor
Durang, John contributor
Emerson, Ralph Waldo contributor
Fisher, Barbara Milberg contributor
Gelles, George contributor
Goldner, Nancy contributor
Gottlieb, Robert foreword
Greskovic, Robert contributor
Harriman, Margaret Case contributor
Harss, Marina contributor
Hodes, Stuart contributor
Homans, Jennifer,1960- contributor
Howard, Richard contributor
Hughes, Langston,1902-1967 contributor
Hurston, Zora Neale contributor
Hyman, Yehuda contributor
Johnston, Jill contributor
Jowitt, Deborah contributor
Kendall, Elizabeth contributor
Kent, Allegra contributor
Kirstein, Lincoln contributor
Kisselgoff, Anna contributor
Leivick, Laura contributor
Limón, José contributor
Macaulay, Alastair contributor
Massine, Léonide contributor
Mercer, Johnny contributor
Morris, Mark contributor
Neihardt, John Gneisenau contributor
Parker, H.T. (Henry Taylor) contributor
Pierpont, Claudia Roth contributor
Pugh, Megan contributor
Reynolds, Nancy contributor
Robbins, Jerome contributor
Siegel, Marcia B. contributor
Smith, Robb contributor
Sommer, Sally R. contributor
Sontag, Susan contributor
Taylor, Paul contributor
Terry, Walter contributor
Tharp, Twyla contributor
Tobias, Tobi contributor
Updike, John contributor
Vaughan, David contributor
Wilson, E. J. N. contributor
van Vechten, Carl contributor
Balliett, Whitney contributor
Barnes, Clive contributor
Barnett, Lincoln contributor
Baryshnikov, Mikhail contributor
Black Elk contributor
Boris, Ruthanna contributor
Brown, Carolyn contributor
Brubach, Holly contributor
Cable, George Washington contributor
Caines, Christopher contributor
Collins, Janet contributor
Crane, Hart contributor
Croce, Arlene contributor
Cunningham, Merce contributor
Dalva, Nancy contributor
De Mille, Agnes contributor
Denby, Edwin contributor
Dickens, Charles contributor
Dickinson, Emily contributor
Duncan, Isadora contributor
Dunham, Katherine contributor
Durang, John contributor
Emerson, Ralph Waldo contributor
Fisher, Barbara Milberg contributor
Gelles, George contributor
Goldner, Nancy contributor
Gottlieb, Robert foreword
Greskovic, Robert contributor
Harriman, Margaret Case contributor
Harss, Marina contributor
Hodes, Stuart contributor
Homans, Jennifer,1960- contributor
Howard, Richard contributor
Hughes, Langston,1902-1967 contributor
Hurston, Zora Neale contributor
Hyman, Yehuda contributor
Johnston, Jill contributor
Jowitt, Deborah contributor
Kendall, Elizabeth contributor
Kent, Allegra contributor
Kirstein, Lincoln contributor
Kisselgoff, Anna contributor
Leivick, Laura contributor
Limón, José contributor
Macaulay, Alastair contributor
Massine, Léonide contributor
Mercer, Johnny contributor
Morris, Mark contributor
Neihardt, John Gneisenau contributor
Parker, H.T. (Henry Taylor) contributor
Pierpont, Claudia Roth contributor
Pugh, Megan contributor
Reynolds, Nancy contributor
Robbins, Jerome contributor
Siegel, Marcia B. contributor
Smith, Robb contributor
Sommer, Sally R. contributor
Sontag, Susan contributor
Taylor, Paul contributor
Terry, Walter contributor
Tharp, Twyla contributor
Tobias, Tobi contributor
Updike, John contributor
Vaughan, David contributor
Wilson, E. J. N. contributor
van Vechten, Carl contributor
ISBN
9781598535846
Table of Contents
From the Book
Foreword / Robert Gottlieb --
Introduction / Mindy Aloff --
800 yards of shiny stuff [Black and Blue] --
Patty McBride's last bow --
Rattled bones [Kabuki] --
Tutu much [The Trocks] / Joan Acocella --
Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson --
Ballet's present Eden - example of The Nutcracker / W.H. Auden --
The casino de Paris (and Chiquita) / Josephine Baker --
Ballet in films --
The crystal palace --
Letter to Lincoln Kirstein --
Some thoughts on ballet in America --
If I were President / George Balanchine --
New York notes [Baby Laurence] / Whitney Balliett --
Paul Taylor / Clive Barnes --
Fred Astaire / Lincoln Barnett --
Tribute to Balanchine / Mikhail Baryshnikov --
The horse dance / Black Elk and John Gneisnau Neihardt --
I remember Balanchine / Ruthanna Boris --
The VW years [Radio City Music Hall] / Carolyn Brown --
A classic "Beauty" / Holly Brubach --
The dance in Place Congo / George Washington Cable --
The sylph inside us / Christopher Caines --
Mandan village, upper Missouri / George Catlin --
Léonide Massine / Janet Collins --
"To Portapovich" [Ballets Russes] --
Letter to Gorham Munson [Isadora Duncan] / Hart Crane --
Dance in film --
Adagio and allegro [Suzanne Farrell, Merrill Ashley] --
Edwin Denby / Arlene Croce --
The function of a technique for dance / Merce Cunningham --
Letter from Manhattan [Paul Taylor, Eiko, and Koma] / Nancy Dalva --
La Argentina --
Rhythm in my blood [on choreography] / Agnes de Mille --
Flight of the dancer --
A briefing in American ballet --
Against meaning in ballet / Edwin Denby --
Dancing at Five Points / Charles Dickens --
"I cannot dance upon my Toes" / Emily Dickinson --
The dance of the future / Isadora Duncan --
Thesis turned Broadway / Katherine Dunham --
The greatest dancer in America / John Durang --
On Fanny Elssler / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Nightmare in Copenhagen [Tanaquil Le Clercq] / Barbara Milberg Fisher --
Outside time, out-of-date [Watermill] / George Gelles --
Symphony in C --
A Midsummer Night's Dream / Nancy Goldner --
Free Spirit [Isadora Duncan] --
Farrell's revival of Don Q / Robert Gottlieb --
Merce Cunningham as sculptor / Robert Greskovic --
Dance team / Margaret Case Harriman --
Plainspoken [Mark Morris] / Marina Harss --
(from) Onstage with Martha Graham / Stuart Hodes --
The universalist [Alonzo King] / Jennifer Homans --
"Famed Dancer Dies of Phosphorus Poisoning" [Loïe Fuller] / Richard Howard --
"Dream Variation" --
"Midnight Dancer" --
Mister Jazz / Langston Hughes --
Hoodoo / Zora Neale Hurston --
Three Hasidic dances / Yehuda Hyman --
Lucidly defined [Judson Dance Theater] / Jill Johnston --
On Afternoon of a Faun --
Two new ballets at NYCB glance backward with trick glasses [Benjamin Millepied, Alexei Ratmansky] / Deborah Jowitt --
Ragtime / Elizabeth Kendall --
Memories of Madame Karinska / Allegra Kent --
The music hall, revues, the movies --
Martha Graham --
Popular style in American dancing --
Balanchine and the waltz / Lincoln Kirstein --
Introduction to Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs / Anna Kisselgoff --
Miss Brodie's Swan [Anna Pavlova] / Laura Leivick --
(from) An Unfinished Memoir [Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey] / José Limón --
His moves expressed as much as his music [Michael Jackson] --
Notice the feet in that body of work --
Where light replaces sound and movement offers comfort [Sara Rudner, Dana Reitz, Jennifer Tipton] / Alastair Macaulay --
(from) My Life in Ballet [The Roxy] / Léonide Massine --
"Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry" / Johnny Mercer --
Where I come from --
Commencement speech, Longy School of Music / Mark Morris --
A dancer whose art is all her own [Isadora Duncan] --
Miss St. Denis dances --
Manifold Nijinsky / H.T. (Henry Taylor) Parker --
Balachine's temperaments / Claudia Roth Pierpont --
(from) Introduction: An American Style / Megan Pugh --
Tribute to Maria Tallchief / Nancy Reynolds --
On choreographing / Jerome Robbins --
Dance Theatre of Harlem's Nijinska --
Prince of lightness: Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) / Marcia B. Siegel --
An appreciation: Gregory Hines / Sally R. Sommer --
On dance and dance writing / Susan Sontag --
Black Mountain, Hell's Kitchen, and Broadway / Paul Taylor --
Ballet on ice [Catherine Littlefield] --
Fantasia's dances / Walter Terry --
(from Push Comes to Shove [Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine] / Twyla Tharp --
Mining the past [Trisha Brown] / Tobi Tobias --
Genial, kinetic Gene Kelly / John Updike --
Maud Allan in Greek dances --
The lindy hop --
Eloquent Alvin Ailey / Carl Van Vechten --
(from Beautifully dance: Anatole Obukhov / David Vaughan --
The finale at The Follies: Dress Rehearsal / Edmund Wilson
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