Author: Rachel Isadora Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780140566703 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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A brief biography of the woman whose unique style of dance was not readily accepted by audiences at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author: K. LaMothe Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403977267 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 269
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This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of "revaluing all values" alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and guidance in Nietzsche's texts for developing dance as a medium of religious expression.
Author: Ann Daly Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819570966 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 289
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This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the thought, politics and art of her time. Duncan's dancing earned her international fame and influenced generations of American girls and women, yet the romantic myth that surrounds her has left some questions unanswered: What did her audiences see on stage, and how did they respond? What dreams and fears of theirs did she play out? Why, in short, was Duncan's dancing so compelling? First published in 1995 and now back in print, Done into Dance reveals Duncan enmeshed in social and cultural currents of her time — the moralism of the Progressive Era, the artistic radicalism of prewar Greenwich Village, the xenophobia of the 1920s, her association with feminism and her racial notion of "Americanness."
Author: Barbara O'Connor Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 9780876148075 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 104
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Describes the life of the modern dancer who created a spontaneous, free-form dance style accompanied by literary readings and non-dance music.
Author: J. O. Jeppson Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449030947 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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This historical novel is about the influence of Isadora Duncan, who never kept anything secret, on a suburban family that tried to keep many secrets.
Author: Andrea Mantell Seidel Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786477954 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 271
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Part artistic study, part intimate memoir, this book illuminates the technique and repertory of American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) and her enduring legacy from the perspective of an artist and scholar who has reconstructed and performed her work for 35 years. Providing an overview of modern activities and trends in the teaching and performance of Duncan's dance, the author describes her own work directing The Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, the company that sought to implement Duncan's mission to create not a school of dance but "a school of life."
Author: Fiona Macintosh Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191634387 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages :
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When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas.
Author: Rachel Isadora
Author: K. LaMothe
Author: Ann Daly
Author: Barbara O'Connor
Author: J. O. Jeppson
Author: Abraham Walkowitz
Author: Andrea Mantell Seidel
Author: Fiona Macintosh
Author: Theodore Presser
Author: Martin Sherman