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On stage alone : soloists and the modern dance canon /

"Soloists ignited the modern dance movement and have been a source of its constant renewal. Pioneering dancers such as Loïe Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Maud Allan embodied the abstraction and individuality of the larger modernist movement while making astounding contributions t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gitelman, Claudia, Palfy, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Claudia Gitelman
  • Michio Ito's shadow : searching for the transnational in solo dance / Carrie J. Preston
  • Alone into the world : reflections on solos from 1919 by Vaslav Nijinsky and Mary Wigman / Ramsay Burt
  • The solo that isn't a solo : Ann Carlson's dances with animals / Janice Ross
  • Aesthetics of early modernist solo dance in Central Europe / Karl Toepfer
  • Exotica and ethereality : the solo art of Maud Allan / Julie Malnig
  • Modernity and nationalism in solo dance in Brazil : The Bailado of Eros Volúsia and the performance of Luiz de Abreu / Sandra Meyer
  • Strage heroes / Deborah Jowitt
  • Anna Huber : a conceptual moment in Switzerland / Renée E. D'Aoust.