Dancing Naturally: Nature, Neo-Classicism and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Dance

Contents

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Nature, Force and Variation
• R.Fensham Constructing and Contesting the Natural in British Theatre Dance
• A.Carter Ideas of Nature, the Natural and the Modern in Early Twentieth-CenturyDance Discourse
• M.Huxley & R.Burt The Ancient Greeks and the 'Natural'
• F.Macintosh From the Artificial to the Natural Body: Social Dancing in Britain 1900-1914
• T.Buckland Dancing Based on Natural Movement
• M.A.Johnstone & M.Atkinson Undressing and Dressing Up: Natural Movement's Life in Costume
• R.Fensham Nature Moving Naturally in Succession: An Exploration of Doris Humphrey's Water Study
• L.Main Tensing and Relaxing Naturally: Systematic Approaches to Training the Body
• S.Foster 'Female Nature', Body Culture and Plastique
• K.Vedel Tethering the Flow: Dialogues between Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia
• A.Card Mining Anatomy: Moving Naturally
• L.Worth Index