Copeland Merce Cunningham

The Modernizing of Modern Dance
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88908-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Copeland, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 From Graham to Cunningham: An Unsentimental Education
2 Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man
3 Beyond the Ethos of Abstract Expressionism
4 The Limitations of Instinct
5 Contemporary Classicism: Re-Discovering Ballet
6 Primitive Mysteries
7 The Sound of Perceptual Freedom
8 Cunningham, Cage, and Collage
9 Dancing for the Digital Age
10 Re-Thinking the Thinking Body: The Gaze of Upright Posture
11 Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Cunningham
12 Fatal Abstraction: Merce Cunningham and The Politics of Perception
13 Dancing in the Aftermath of 9/11

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College. He is coeditor of the widely used anthology What is Dance? His essays about dance, theater, and film have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many other publications including The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet.