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1st Edition

Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

By Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley Copyright 2020
244 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

List of illustrations

 

Foreword

Claire Warden

 

Acknowledgements

　

PART 1

  1. Introduction: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

    2. Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley

  2. Dance and Modernism: A Historiographical Consideration

    3. Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt

  3. Dance and Modernism: Natural Dancing and Modernity

    4. Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley

  4. Dance and Modernism: Transnational Currents

    5. Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley

    　

    PART 2

  5. Wassily Kandinsky, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Modernism 1908-1914

    6. Michael Huxley

  6. Breaking into the Male Modernist World: Akarova and Margaret Morris

    7. Ramsay Burt

  7. Modernist Dance, War, and Precarious Life: Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman

    8. Ramsay Burt

  8. The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss, Ballet and Modernity

    9. Michael Huxley

  9. The New Ballet: Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas and the Loss of Gesture

    10. Ramsay Burt

  10. Breaking Boundaries: Hanya Holm from Trend to My Fair Lady

    11. Michael Huxley

  11. Modernity, Ritual and Diasporic Culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka

          Ramsay Burt

 

Afterword

Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley

 

Index

Biography

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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