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Directing the dance legacy of Doris Humphrey : the creative impulse of reconstruction /

Looks inside four of Doris Humphrey's major choreographic works--Water study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With my red fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)--with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the mod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Main, Lesley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Colección:Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Negotiating a living past
  • Part One : Chasing the ephemeral : Reconstruction, re-creation, reinvention
  • History in the making
  • Theatrical parallels
  • Battling Beckett
  • Part Two : Exploring the creative impulse
  • Water Study : Performance history
  • Identifying and exploring the evidence
  • Interpreting from the present
  • Catching the undertow: The dancing of Water Study
  • Passacaglia : Performance history
  • A musical exploration of choreographic structure
  • Centennial celebrations and beyond
  • With My Red Fires : Performance history
  • Contemporary perspective
  • Evidence from the source
  • Reshaping the matriarch
  • Creative possibility
  • The shakers : Performance history
  • Transmission strategies
  • Crossing the line
  • Navigating narrative
  • Epilogue: Dancing the past tomorrow.