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What is dance?: readings in theory and criticism
Roger. Copeland and Marshall Cohen-
Frontmatter
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I WHAT IS DANCE?
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From Letters on Dancing and Ballets: Letter 1 (JEAN-GEORGES NOVERRE, page 10)
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Dance as an Art of Imitation (SELMA JEANNE COHEN, page 15)
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From The Dance (JOHN MARTIN, page 22)
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From The Modern Dance (page 23)
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From Feeling and Form (SUSANNE K. LANGER, page 28)
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The Idea of the Dance: From Aristotle to Mallarmé (ANDRÉ LEVINSON, page 47)
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Philosophy of the Dance (PAUL VALÉRY, page 55)
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From Languages of Art (NELSON GOODMAN, page 66)
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Philosophers and the Dance (DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN, page 85)
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Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance (FRANCIS SPARSHOTT, page 94)
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II THE DANCE MEDIUM (page 103)
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Ballets (STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ, page 111)
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Le Sacre du Printemps (JACQUES RIVIÈRE, page 115)
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Balanchine's Formalism (DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN, page 123)
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Poet and Dancer before Diaghilev (FRANK KERMODE, page 145)
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Primitivism, Modernism, and Dance Theory (MARSHALL COHEN, page 161)
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Puppet Theatre (HEINRICH VON KLEIST, page 178)
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III DANCE AND THE OTHER ARTS (page 185)
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From The Art-Work of the Future (RICHARD WAGNER, page 191)
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Martha Graham's Journey (ERIC BENTLEY, page 197)
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Music and Action (CONSTANT LAMBERT, page 203)
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The Purism of Étienne Decroux (ERIC BENTLEY, page 210)
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From Music in London 1890-94 (BERNARD SHAW, page 215)
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Edgar Degas and the Dance (THEODORE REFF, page 217)
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IV GENRE AND STYLE (page 225)
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Classic Ballet: Aria of the Aerial (LINCOLN KIRSTEIN, page 238)
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From Tonight the Ballet (ADRIAN STOKES, page 244)
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From The Book of Exultation (A.K. VOLINSKY, page 255)
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Letter to "The Timse," July 6th, 1914 (MICHEL FOKINE, page 257)
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Modern Dance
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The Dance Of The Future (ISADORA DUNCAN, page 262)
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From Apology for Dancing (RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, page 267)
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Mind and Medium in the Modern Dance (KATHARINE EVERETT GILBERT, page 289)
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My Teacher Laban (MARY WIGMAN, page 302)
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Merce Cunningham and the Politics of Perception (ROGER COPELAND, page 307)
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Post-Modern Dance
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A Quasi Survey of Some "Minimalist" Tendencies (YVONNE RAINER, page 325)
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Running Out of Breath (TOM JOHNSON, page 332)
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Notes on Music and Dance (STEVE REICH, page 336)
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Style
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From Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections on Dance and Dances (SELMA JEANNE COHEN, page 339)
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The Swan in Zurich (R.P. BLACKMUR, page 354)
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There Is Nothing "National" about Ballet Styles (ANNA KISSELGOFF, page 361)
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From Ballet Alphabet (LINCOLN KIRSTEIN, page 364)
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V LANGUAGE, NOTATION, AND IDENTITY (page 367)
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From The Principles of Art (ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD, page 371)
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Art as Language (JOSEPH MARGOLIS, page 376)
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Dance Notation and Choreology (FERNAU HALL, page 390)
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From Languages of Art (NELSON GOODMAN, page 399)
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Idealists, Materialists, and the Thirty-Two Fouettés (JACK ANDERSON, page 410)
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VI DANCE CRITICISM (page 421)
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Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" (THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, page 431)
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The Art and Meaning of Isadora Duncan (ANDRê LEVINSON, page 438)
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Anna Pavlowa, 1920 (CARL VAN VECHTEN, page 445)
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Three Sides of Agon (EDWIN DENBY, page 446)
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Monumental Martha (DEBORAH JOWITT, page 456)
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Momentous (The Four Temperaments) (ARLENE CROCE, page 459)
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VII DANCE AND SOCIETY (page 473)
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From The Dance of Life (HAVELOCK ELLIS, page 478)
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From The Elizabethan World Picture (E.M.W. TILLYARD, page 497)
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From Ancient Art and Ritual (JANE HARRISON, page 502)
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The Whirling Dervishes: An Emptiness Filled with Everything (ROSS WETZSTEON, page 507)
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Striptease (Roland Barthes, page 512)
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Dance, Photography, and the World's Body (ROGER COPELAND, page 515)
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The Egalitarian Waltz (RUTH KATZ, page 521)
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An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance (JOANN KEALIINOHOMOKU, page 533)
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From Where She Danced (ELIZABETH KENDALL, page 550)
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Bibliography (page 561)
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Index (page 573)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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PAJ | 7.2 (1983): 115-116 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3245327 |
DRJ | 15.1 (Autumn 1982): 42-44 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1477694 |
JAAC | 43.1 (Autumn 1984): 104-105 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/430200 |
DR | 3.2 (Summer 1985): 71-73 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290561 |
TJ | 36.3 (Oct. 1984): 442-443 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3206984 |
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Published: 1983
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195032178 (hardcover)
- 9780195031973 (paper)