Choreography and Dance Studies Series
Dancing in the Vortex: The Story of Ida Rubinstein
1st Edition
By Vicki Woolf
June 01, 2012
Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere. This was the atmosphere which nurtured the artistic development of the remarkable dancer and choreographer Ida Rubinstein.This long-awaited biography gives us a unique insight into the life of a ...
Jose Limon: An Artist Re-viewed
1st Edition
Edited
By June Dunbar
October 04, 2002
Jose Limn is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th century. His technique is still taught at major colleges and dance schools; his dance company continues to revive his works, plus presents new works. His most famous work, The Moor's Pavanne, has...
Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Vernon-Warren, Charles Warren
August 01, 1999
Born in Vienna in 1890, Gertrud Bodenwieser became a leading exponent of Ausdruckstanz (Expressionist Dance) during the 1920s and 1930s, developing a definitive personal style and a philosophy of dance that distinguished her from all her contemporaries. In 1938 she emigrated to Australia to start ...
On Angels and Devils and Stages Between: Contemporary Lives in Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
By David Wood
July 01, 1999
The revolution that happened in the American dance world between 1932 until 1992 was as great, or even greater, than the earlier movement revolution instigated by the Ballets Russes. In his revealing book David Wood evokes this exciting period of change and describes the roles of the key creative ...
Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic
1st Edition
By Debra Hickenlooper Sowell
July 01, 1998
With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties. Their story sheds light on the history of ballet in twentieth-century America, both through their ...
Modern Dance in France (1920-1970): An Adventure
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Robinson
July 01, 1998
It was indeed an adventure for those pioneers in France who struggled for the recognition of the new-born dance of the twentieth century - from the free dance of Isadora Duncan, through the absolute dance of Mary Wigman, to the modern dance of Martha Graham. Jacqueline Robinson has lived at the ...
What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life
1st Edition
By Lotte Goslar
July 01, 1998
Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with ...
Frontiers: American Modern Dancer and Dance Educator
1st Edition
By Karen Bell-Kanner
June 01, 1998
The daily life of Bonnie Bird, as an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is uniquely revealed in this book. Karen Bell-Kanner shares with the reader her fascinating interviews with Bonnie Bird and the intimate letters that Bonnie Bird wrote to her family in Seattle from New York when she was ...
Doris Humphrey: A Centennial Issue
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi Mindlin
May 01, 1998
In honour of Doris Humphrey's centennial, which was celebrated worldwide in 1995, this issue explores her legacy to the world of dance and her place in history. The varied aspects of her work are covered including choreography, teaching approach, Labanotation scores, reconstruction/recreations, and...
Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit
1st Edition
By Larry Warren
March 01, 1998
A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different years and that her parents were from Poland ...
You Call Me Louis, Not Mr. Horst
1st Edition
By Dorothy Madden
September 01, 1997
Dorothy Madden's lively book about Louis Horst (You don't call me Mr. Horst, you call me Louis, he always said) makes for compulsive reading. She follows Horst's extraordinary life, punctuating her narrative with reminiscences, illuminating anecdotes from her personal store of memories, as well as ...
Dancing Female
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon E. Friedler, Susan B. Glazer
June 01, 1997
How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and researched by the educators and dancers Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in Dancing Female . In dealing with some of the...