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Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Banes Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to other oppositional, often marginalized strands of dance culture, and considers how certain kinds of dance move from the margins to the mainstream.Banes begins by considering the act of dance criticism itself, exploring its modes, methods, and underlying assumptions and examining the work of other critics. She traces the development of contemporary dance from the early work of such influential figures as Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine to such contemporary choreographers as Molissa Fenley, Karole Armitage, and Michael Clark. She analyzes the contributions of the Judson Dance Theatre and the Workers Dance League, the emergence of Latin postmodern dance in New York, and the impact of black jazz in Russia. In addition, Banes explores such untraditional performance modes as breakdancing and the drunk dancing of Fred Astaire.

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title Terpsichore in Sneakers Post-modern Dance Wesleyan Paperback - photo 1

title:Terpsichore in Sneakers : Post-modern Dance Wesleyan Paperback
author:Banes, Sally.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819561606
print isbn13:9780819561602
ebook isbn13:9780585371115
language:English
subjectModern dance.
publication date:1987
lcc:GV1783.B36 1987eb
ddc:793.3/2
subject:Modern dance.
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Terpsichore in Sneakers
Post-Modern Dance
Sally Banes
with a new introduction
Terpsichore in sneakers post-modern dance - image 2
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright 1977, 1978, 1979, 1987 by Sally Banes
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6
This book was first published by Houghton Mifflin Company
First Wesleyan Paperback, 1987
Parts of this book have been previously published in Dance Scope, Dance Research Journal, Village Voice, Dance Magazine and The Postmodern Moment, ed. Stanley Trachenberg (Greenwood Press).
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use previously published material: Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A." Reprinted from Yvonne Rainer, Work 196173. (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; New York: New York University Press, 1974), by permission of the author, Steve Paxton, "Satisfyin Lover," Reprinted from 0 to 9, no. 4 (1968), by permission of the author. Lucinda Childs, "Street Dance,'' from Lucinda Childs: A Portfolio." Reprinted from Artforum 11 Excerpt, reprinted by permission of the choreographer. Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing." Reprinted from James Klosty, Merce Cunningham (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), by permission of Douglas Dunn and E. P. Dutton.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Banes, Sally.
Terpsichore in sneakers.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. With new introd.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Modern dance. I. Title.
GV1783.B36 1987 793.3'2 86-7829
ISBN 0-8195-6160-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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Picture 3
Our steps are so easy and familiar to us that they never have the honor to be considered in themselves, and as strange acts.
Paul Valry
Dance and the Soul
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
x
Preface to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition
xi
Introduction to the Wesleyan Paperback Edition
xiii
Introduction: Sources of Post-Modern Dance
1
Simone Forti: Dancing as If Newborn
20
Picture 4
Simone Forti, Animal Stories
38
Yvonne Rainer: The Aesthetics of Denial
41
Picture 5
Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A"
55
Steve Paxton: Physical Things
57
Picture 6
Steve Paxton, Satisfyin Lover
71
Trisha Brown: Gravity and Levity
77
Picture 7
Trisha Brown, Skymap
92
David Gordon: The Ambiguities
97
Picture 8
David Gordon, Response
109

Page viii
Deborah Hay: The Cosmic Dance
113
Picture 9
Deborah Hay, Excerpts from The Grand Dance
128
Lucinda Childs: The Act of Seeing
133
Picture 10
Lucinda Childs, Street Dance
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