Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Fashionable dancing
Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Fashionable Dancing ... With twelve illustrations by Gavarni
Author: Henri CELLARIUSDANCING
Author: MRS. LILLY GROVEDancing
Author: Lady Lilly Grove FrazerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Fashionable Dancing ...
Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Fashionable Dancing
Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
I See America Dancing
Author: Maureen NeedhamPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069994
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Representing dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the dance and dancers' views of what they do when they dance. Dance traditions represented include the Native American pow-wow; tribal music and dance activities on Sunday afternoons in New Orlean's Congo Square; the colonial Playford Balls and their modern offspring, country line dancing; and the Buddhist-inspired Japanese Bon dances in Hawaii. Anti-dance perspectives include government injunctions against Native American dancing and essays from a range of speakers who have declared the waltz, the twist, or the senior prom to be a careless quick-step away from hell or the brothel. I See America Dancing examines the styles that have marked theatrical dance in America, from French ballet to minstrel shows, and presents the views of influential dancers, choreographers, and the pioneers of early modern dance in America. Specific pieces examined include George Ballanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes, Yvonne Rainer's protest piece "Flag Dance, 1970," and Sonjé Mayo's "Naked in America." Covering historical social attitudes toward the dance as well as the performers and their works, I See America Dancing is a comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook that captures the energy and passion of this vital artform.
The Drawing-room Dances
Author: Cellarius (pseud.)The Drawing-room Dances
Author: Henri CellariusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Following a format utilized by many manuals, the work begins with introductory comments on dance, followed by a description of the French quadrille. This is followed by discussion of round dances--the polka, numerous waltzes including waltze à trois temps, and waltze à deux temps--as well as steps and figures for another type of quadrille known as the mazurka quadrille. The manual contains eighty-three figures for a series of dance games, called the cotillon (also known as the German or German cotillon). The manual includes eight full-page prints by Paul Gavarni.
Dance and American Art
Author: Sharyn R. UdallPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029928803X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America’s perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous—Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham—have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists’ portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.