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Anna Sokolow

Larry Warren
Anna Sokolow Book PDF

Author : Larry Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136649844

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Anna Sokolow by Larry Warren Pdf

A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different years and that her parents were from Poland except when they were in Russia, and found many other inaccuracies. Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Larry Warren has created a fascinating account and assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, whose nomadic career was divided between New York, Mexico, and Israel. Setting her work on more than 70 dance companies, Anna Sokolow not only pioneered the development of a personal approach to movement, which has become part of the language of contemporary dance, but also created such masterpieces as Rooms, dealing with loneliness and alienation, and Dreams, which concerns the inner torment of victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Ballade by Anna Sokolow

Anna Sokolow,Ray Cook
Ballade by Anna Sokolow Book PDF

Author : Anna Sokolow,Ray Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2881249124

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Ballade by Anna Sokolow by Anna Sokolow,Ray Cook Pdf

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ballade by Anna Sokolow

Ray Cook
Ballade by Anna Sokolow Book PDF

Author : Ray Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134309214

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Ballade by Anna Sokolow by Ray Cook Pdf

This volume publishes Anna Sokolow's Ballade in Labanotation for the first time. It is a dance which explores youth and its discoveries, following the restlessness and inconclusiveness of young love to a final sombre note. The complete score is accompanied by detailed study and performance notes, historical background and photographs. Since moving to New York in 1961, Ray Cook has worked as a dancer and notator with many leading choreographers and has dedicated himself to working with Labanotation. He has directed major dance works from score, restaged many which had been considered lost and proven through his work that Labanotation is an essential means of preserving our dance heritage. He is currently an Associate Professor of Dance at Vassar College.

Anna Sokolow

Larry Warren
Anna Sokolow Book PDF

Author : Larry Warren
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789057021848

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Anna Sokolow by Larry Warren Pdf

Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Larry Warren has created a fascinating account and assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, whose nomadic career was divided between New York, Mexico, and Israel.

Alex North, Film Composer

Sanya Shoilevska Henderson
Alex North Film Composer Book PDF

Author : Sanya Shoilevska Henderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786443338

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Alex North, Film Composer by Sanya Shoilevska Henderson Pdf

Alex North (1910-1991) was one of America's most renowned film composers. His musical scores enhanced more than 60 major motion pictures--A Streetcar Named Desire, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf among them. He had 15 Oscar nominations, and received the Lifetime Achievement Oscar. This book begins with his early life in Pennsylvania, and moves through his studies at Juilliard and in Russia and Mexico, his early experiences in modern dance, documentaries, and theater, and his major work in film. The book also offers analyses of North's musical scores for Streetcar, Spartacus, The Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Honor. Appendices include a bibliography, a filmography, a listing of other North compositions, a discography, and a listing of awards.

Queer Dance

Clare Croft
Queer Dance Book PDF

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190646776

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Queer Dance by Clare Croft Pdf

If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality and reproduction? How does challenging gender binaries always mean thinking about race, thinking about the postcolonial, about ableism? What are the arbitrary rules structuring dance in all its arenas, whether concert and social or commercial and competition, and how do we see those invisible structures and work to disrupt them? Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project-book, accompanying website, and live performance series to ask, "How does dancing queerly progressively challenge us?" The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online stage a range of genders and sexualities that challenge and destabilize social norms. Engaging with dance making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and other fields, Queer Dance asks how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. There is great power in claiming queerness in the press of bodies touching or in the exceeding of the body best measured in sweat and exhaustion. How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might we explore about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?

The Modern Dance

Selma Jeanne Cohen
The Modern Dance Book PDF

Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819570932

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The Modern Dance by Selma Jeanne Cohen Pdf

CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.

Honest Bodies

Hannah Kosstrin
Honest Bodies Book PDF

Author : Hannah Kosstrin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199396962

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Honest Bodies by Hannah Kosstrin Pdf

Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book illuminates Sokolow's statements for workers' rights, anti-racism, and the human condition through her choreography for social change alongside her dancing and teaching for Martha Graham. Tracing a catalog of dances with her companies Dance Unit, La Paloma Azul, Lyric Theatre, and Anna Sokolow Dance Company, along with presenters and companies the Negro Cultural Committee, New York State Committee for the Communist Party, Federal Theatre Project, Nuevo Grupo Mexicano de Clásicas y Modernas, and Inbal Dance Theater, this book highlights Sokolow's work in conjunction with developments in ethnic definitions, diaspora, and nationalism in the US, Mexico, and Israel.

A Revolution in Movement

K. Mitchell Snow
A Revolution in Movement Book PDF

Author : K. Mitchell Snow
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813072739

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A Revolution in Movement by K. Mitchell Snow Pdf

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities A Revolution in Movement is the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico’s postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance—the emulation of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the 1920s, the adoption of U.S.-style modern dance in the 1940s, and the creation of ballet-inspired folk dance in the 1960s. Snow describes the appearances in Mexico by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Spanish concert dancer Tortóla Valencia, who helped motivate Mexico to express its own national identity through dance. He discusses the work of muralists and other visual artists in tandem with Mexico’s theatrical dance world, including Diego Rivera’s collaborations with ballet composer Carlos Chávez; Carlos Mérida’s leadership of the National School of Dance; José Clemente Orozco’s involvement in the creation of the Ballet de la Ciudad de México; and Miguel Covarrubias, who led the “golden age” of Mexican modern dance. Snow draws from a rich trove of historical newspaper accounts and other contemporary documents to show how these collaborations produced an image of modern Mexico that would prove popular both locally and internationally and continues to endure today.

Dance Spreads Its Wings

Ruth Eshel
Dance Spreads Its Wings Book PDF

Author : Ruth Eshel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110749946

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Dance Spreads Its Wings by Ruth Eshel Pdf

Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including “What do we dance?” because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years—starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the Yishuv (pre-Israel Jewish settlements) period, until 2010, when concert dance in Israel had grown to become one of the country’s most prominent, original, artistic fields and globally recognized. What drives the book is the impulse to create and the need to dance in the midst of constant political change. It is the story of artists trying to be true to their art while also responding to the political, social, religious, and ethnic complexities of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Dancing Jewish

Rebecca Rossen
Dancing Jewish Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Rossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199792016

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Dancing Jewish by Rebecca Rossen Pdf

While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart.

Dance on Its Own Terms

Melanie Bales,Karen Eliot
Dance on Its Own Terms Book PDF

Author : Melanie Bales,Karen Eliot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199939985

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Dance on Its Own Terms by Melanie Bales,Karen Eliot Pdf

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplines outside dance. Individual chapters serve as case studies that are further organized into three categories of significant dance activity: performance and reconstruction, pedagogy and choreographic process, and notational and other written forms that analyze and document dance. The breadth of the content reflects the richness and vibrancy of the dance field; each deeply informed examination serves as a window opening onto the larger world of dance. Conceptually, each chapter also raises concerns and questions that point to broadly inclusive methodological applications. Engaging and insightful, Dance on its Own Terms represents a major contribution to research on dance.

Stepping Left

Ellen Graff
Stepping Left Book PDF

Author : Ellen Graff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822319489

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Stepping Left by Ellen Graff Pdf

Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this period, describing the moment in American dance history when the revolutionary fervor of "dancing modern" was joined with the revolutionary vision promised by the Soviet Union. This account reveals the major contribution of Communist and left-wing politics to modern dance during its formative years in New York City. From Communist Party pageants to union hall performances to benefits for the Spanish Civil War, Graff documents the passionate involvement of American dancers in the political and social controversies that raged throughout the Depression era. Dancers formed collectives and experimented with collaborative methods of composition at the same time that they were marching in May Day parades, demonstrating for workers' rights, and protesting the rise of fascism in Europe. Graff records the explosion of choreographic activity that accompanied this lively period--when modern dance was trying to establish legitimacy and its own audience. Stepping Left restores a missing legacy to the history of American dance, a vibrant moment that was supressed in the McCarthy era and almost lost to memory. Revisiting debates among writers and dancers about the place of political content and ethnicity in new dance forms, Stepping Left is a landmark work of dance history.

Converging Movements

Naomi M. Jackson
Converging Movements Book PDF

Author : Naomi M. Jackson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819564206

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Converging Movements by Naomi M. Jackson Pdf

A groundbreaking study of the 92nd Street Y and its major influence on 20th-century American culture.

The Joffrey Ballet

Sasha Anawalt
The Joffrey Ballet Book PDF

Author : Sasha Anawalt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226017559

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The Joffrey Ballet by Sasha Anawalt Pdf

This is a comprehensive history of the American dance troupe, the Joffrey Ballet, and a portrait of Robert Joffrey, the creative personality who inspired it. Written in anecdotal style, the book probes the complex relationship which exists between a culture and its artists.