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Author:   Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK) ,  Michael Huxley (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781138313040

ISBN 10:   1138313041
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   02 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of illustrations Foreword - Claire Warden Acknowledgements PART I 1. Introduction: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity 2. Dance and Modernism: A Historiographical Consideration 3. Dance and Modernism: Natural Dancing and Modernity 4. Dance and Modernism: Transnational Currents PART II 5. Wassily Kandinsky, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Modernism 1908-1914 6. Breaking into the Male Modernist World: Akarova and Margaret Morris 7. Modernist Dance, War, and Modernity: Isadora Duncan and La Marseillaise 8. The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss, Ballet and Modernity 9. The New Ballet: Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas and the Loss of Gesture 10. Hanya Holm: a Modernist Pioneer 11. Modernity, Ritual and Diasporic Culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka Afterword Index

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Ramsay Burt is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University, UK. He is director of the university’s Dance, Drama and Performance Studies Research Institute. His publications include The Male Dancer (1995), Alien Bodies (1997), Judson Dance Theater (2006), and Ungoverning Dance (2016). Michael Huxley is Emeritus Reader in Dance and former director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent book is The Dancer’s World 1920–1945: Modern Dancers and Their Practices Reconsidered (2015), and he has been published in dance periodicals such as Dance Chronicle, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, and Discourses in Dance.

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