Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
- Author: Burt, Ramsay
- Author: Huxley, Michael
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
- Author: Burt, Ramsay
- Author: Huxley, Michael
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This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.
Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H'Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers' responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it.
Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Claire Warden
- Acknowledgements
- PART 1 Introduction: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
- Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley
- Dance and Modernism: A Historiographical Consideration
- Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt
- Dance and Modernism: Natural Dancing and Modernity
- Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley
- Dance and Modernism: Transnational Currents
- Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley
- PART 2 Wassily Kandinsky, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Modernism 1908-1914
- Michael Huxley
- Breaking into the Male Modernist World: Akarova and Margaret Morris
- Ramsay Burt
- Modernist Dance, War, and Precarious Life: Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman
- Ramsay Burt
- The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss, Ballet and Modernity
- Michael Huxley
- The New Ballet: Antony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas and the Loss of Gesture
- Ramsay Burt
- Breaking Boundaries: Hanya Holm from Trend to My Fair Lady
- Michael Huxley
- Modernity, Ritual and Diasporic Culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka
- Ramsay Burt
- Afterword
- Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley
- Index
