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Second Edition
Gayle Kassing, PhD
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kassing, Gayle.
Title: History of dance / Gayle Kassing, PhD.
Description: Second edition. | Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017002407 (print) | LCCN 2017002883 (ebook) | ISBN
9781492536697 (print) | ISBN 9781492536710 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Dance--History. | Dance--United States--History.
Classification: LCC GV1601 .K37 2018 (print) | LCC GV1601 (ebook) | DDC
792.8--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002407
ISBN: 978-1-4925-3669-7 (print)
Copyright 2017, 2007 by Gayle Kassing
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Dance as a performance art offers a multimedia experience in which movement interacts with sound, costumes, and lighting in the presence of an audience. Similarly, in history, generations of people have interacted with and responded to social, technological, and artistic movements and political and economic events. By studying the history of dance in an environment of arts, culture, and technology, we can see it from a multimedia perspective. The tools available in the 21st century allow teachers and students to create a multimedia environment that facilitates a visually, textually, and aurally integrated view of the history of dance.
In our technologically saturated era, the senses are bombarded with images, music, and movement. The ability to create a multimedia view of a period of history depends on technological capabilities and access to certain tools. Visual and auditory glimpses of various historical periods through the use of video clips of dance performances allow you to see history in a new context and thus draw new meanings from it. This book provides you with methods for perceiving, creating, responding, and connecting to the history of dance through integrated arts and technology.
History of Dance, although written for dance history courses, also supports general education courses in the humanities and fine arts. As a study of prehistory to the present, the book focuses on dancers, dance, dance works and literature, and dance as an art form in the context of social studies, related arts, and technology. The interactive environment is supported by the national standards for education in dance, arts, social studies, and dance literature in the context of history, society, and culture. The introduction (Capturing Dance From the Past) outlines tools from dance and other arts and disciplines that will facilitate your studies within a perspective of history, related arts, and technology.
The following sections explain how each chapter has been designed to help you learn the history of dance.
Each chapter begins with a snapshot of the historical scene, sketching in the major cultural, political, and economic events during the period covered. A look at the society and arts of the time completes the picture. A time line identifies the major historical, societal, artistic, and technological events and gives you a visual sense of the entire period. Less attention is paid to history and society in part III, the 20th and 21st centuries, because it is assumed that readers have studied U.S. history; instead those overviews function as triggers for memories of the events. The information about 20th- and 21st-century society includes fashion, trends, and arts movements. Gaining an essential understanding of history and society prepares you for the primary focus of the chapterdance.
Each chapter centers on three topics: dancers, dance, and significant dance works and literature. These topics provide you with an initial exposure to the major elements in dance history and a starting point for further research.
This section presents the major dancers, choreographers, and personalities of the period. Each entry begins with a brief biography that includes the persons early history, career accomplishments, significant works, and contributions to dance.
This topic identifies and briefly describes the major dances of the period, including their purpose, forms, and supporting arts. In parts I and II, a section called Dance Designs categorizes the features of dance forms and dances. Underlying any dance design are the elements of space, time, and energy or effort. These elements are then incorporated into a dance structure that relates to the dance accompaniment, costuming, and performance space. Not all of the design elements relate to every dance or dance form. Although each dance is unique, those with similar design elements or structures can be grouped into categories, thereby providing a basis for comparison between categories and historical periods. The design elements include
- the types of movements or steps,
- the number of people,
- relationships or formations,
- dance structure and type,
- dance accompaniment,
- costumes and other accoutrements, and
- the performing space (which may include the time of day, if important).
Dance design has changed through the ages; some elements have supplanted others in importance. Chapters 1 through 5 look at design in terms of individual, community, social, and professional performance. As dance became a performing and theatrical art, it separated from dance as an amusement or social pursuit found in the ballroom and other settings. Dance innovation in society; in ballrooms; on the musical, theatrical, or concert stage; in dance clubs; or on the streets has played an important and enduring role in cross-fertilizing new dance ideas and movements. This continued exchange among dance forms in various settings and within the context of society, arts, and history enriches dance performance, whether as a social pursuit or a performing art. In part III, the attention to design fades into the background while the exploration of significant works appears, as dance genres, forms, and styles emerge.
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