Dance, modernism, and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley.

Author/creator Burt, Ramsay, 1953- author.
Format Book
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Descriptionxviii, 225 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Part 1. Introduction: Dance, modernism, and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Dance and modernism: A historiographical consideration / Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt -- Dance and modernism: Natural dancing and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Dance and modernism: Transnational currents / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Part 2. Wassily Kandinsky, dance, and interdisciplinary modernism 1908-1914 / Michael Huxley -- Breaking into the male modernist world: Akarova and Margaret Morris / Ramsay Burt -- Modernist dance, war, and precarious life: Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman / Ramsay Burt -- The new ballet: Kurt Jooss, ballet and modernity / Michael Huxley -- The new ballet: Antony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas and the loss of gesture / Ramsay Burt -- Hanya Holm: a modernist pioneer / Michael Huxley -- Modernity, ritual and diasporic culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka / Ramsay Burt.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9780429855948
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2019028980
ISBN9781138313033 hardback
ISBN1138313033 hardback
ISBN9781138313040 paperback
ISBN1138313041 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNMobipocket electronic book