Dance, modernism, and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley.
| Author/creator | Burt, Ramsay, 1953- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | xviii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780429855948 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019028980 |
| ISBN | 9781138313033 hardback |
| ISBN | 1138313033 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781138313040 paperback |
| ISBN | 1138313041 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | Mobipocket electronic book |