Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

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