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The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
The Vision of Modern Dance In the Words of Its Creators Author:Jean Morrison Brown (Editor), Naomi Mindlin (Editor), Charles H. Woodford (Editor) This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original essays. — Forerunners: Excerpts from her writings / Isadora Duncan -- — Light and... more » the dance / Loie Fuller --
Dance as life experience / Ruth St. Denis --
Constants-what constitutes a work of art in the dance / Ted Shawn --
Stage dance-stage dancer / Mary Wigman --
Four pioneers: Graham 1937 / Martha Graham --
What a dancer thinks about / Doris Humphrey --
Random remarks / Charles Weidman --
Hanya speaks / Hanya Holm --
Second generation: You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham --
Little house to understand and protect it / Erick Hawkins --
On dance / Jose Limon --
Rebel and the bourgeois / Anna Sokolow --
Excerpts from "Nik: a documentary" / Alwin Nikolais --
Back to basics / Paul Taylor --
It's about dance / Alvin Ailey --
New rebels: Process is the purpose / Anna Halprin --
We don't talk about it. We engage in it. / Judith Dunn --
Mind is a muscle / Yvonne Rainer --
Talking with Pilobolus / Pilobulus --
Dialogue on dance / Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn --
Don't tell me who I am / Rod Rodgers --
Tank dive / Twyla Tharp --
New vision / Passion for music / Mark Morris --
Post-modernism? --
Excerpts from writings / Mary Fulkerson, Molissa Fenley. Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, Garth Fagan, Lucinda Childs, Eiko and Koma, Deborah Hay, and Jowale Willa Jo Zollar« less