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Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism
Sally Banes
Wesleyan University Press
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Contents
• WRITING CRITICISM/ HISTORY • Jill Johnston: Signaling Through the Flames • Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley’s “What is Going on in a Dance?” with Noël Carroll • Criticism as Ethnography • On Your Fingertips: Writing Dance Criticism • Power and the Dancing Body • THE EURO-AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE • Balanchine and Black Dance • An Introduction to the Ballet Suedois • Soiree de Paris • Kasyan Goleizovsky’s Ballet Manifests • Merce Cunnighams Story • Cunnigham and Duchamp with Noël Carroll • THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONNECTION • To the Beat, Y’all: Breaking is Hard to do • Breakdancing: A Reporter’s Story • Lock Steady • Critic’s Choice: Breakdancing • Breaking • A House is Not a Home • Breaking Changing • The Pleasin’ in Teasin’ • The Moscow Charleston: Black Jazz Dancers in the Soviet Union • OTHER SUBCERSIONS: POLITICS AND POPULAR DANCE • Stepping High: Fred Astaire’s Drunk Dances • The Men at John Allen’s Dance House • Red Shoes: The Workers’ Dance League of the 1930’s • POSTMODERN DANCE: FROM THE SIXTIES TO THE NINETIES • Judson Rides Again! • Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater • Vital Signs: Steve Paxton’s Flat in Perspective • Meredith Monk and the Making of Chacon: Notes from a Journal • Dancing from a Journal • Dancing on the Edge • “Drive,” She Said: The dance of Molissa Fenely • Self-Rising Choreography • Transparent Living • No More Ordinary Bodies • Happily Ever After? The Postmodern Fairytale and the New Dance • Pointe of Departure • Classical Brinksmanship: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark • Terpsichore in Sneakers, High heels, Jazz Shoes, and On Pointe: Postmodern Dance Revisited • Dancing {with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without} the Music: Vicissitudes of Collaboration in American Postmodern Choreography • La Onda Próxima: Nueva Latina Dance • Dance and Spectacle in the United States in the Eighties and Nineties • Dancing in Leaner Times • Going Solo • Notes • Index
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