Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
(Part of the Cultural Studies of the United States Series)
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In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning.
Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807853674
ISBN13:9780807853672
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 8.5"
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