Isadora Speaks

Author : Isadora Duncan
Publisher : Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0882862278

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Isadora Speaks by Isadora Duncan Pdf

This outstanding collection of the great dancer's heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood, Isadora Speaks features her outspoken views on America, revolutionary Russia, education and the arts, life with Russian poet Serge Esenin, love, woman's emancipation, and dance as a radical force capable of transforming the world and changing life. Prefaced by dance scholar Ann Barzel, this new edition also includes an updated foreword by Franklin Rosemont on Isadora's extraordinarily diverse and always expanding influence, and fifteen new illustrations.

Author : Isadora Duncan
Publisher : San Francisco : City Lights Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037740888

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Isadora Speaks by Isadora Duncan Pdf

"This outstanding collection of the great dancer's heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood, Isadora Speaks features her outspoken views on America, revolutionary Russia, education and the arts, life with Russian poet Serge Esenin, love, woman's emancipation, and dance as a radical force capable of transforming the world and changing life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrea Mantell Seidel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786477951

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Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century by Andrea Mantell Seidel Pdf

Part artistic study, part intimate memoir, this book illuminates the technique and repertory of American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) and her enduring legacy from the perspective of an artist and scholar who has reconstructed and performed her work for 35 years. Providing an overview of modern activities and trends in the teaching and performance of Duncan's dance, the author describes her own work directing The Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, the company that sought to implement Duncan's mission to create not a school of dance but "a school of life."

Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520924746

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Revealing Masks by W. Anthony Sheppard Pdf

W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of "total theater." Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse—and in some instances, little-known—range of music theater pieces, Sheppard cites the work of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Honegger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harry Partch, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Madonna. Artists in literature, theater, and dance—such as William Butler Yeats, Paul Claudel, Bertolt Brecht, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubenstein, and Edward Gordon Craig--also play a significant role in this study. Sheppard poses challenging questions that will interest readers beyond those in the field of music scholarship. For example, what is the effect on the audience and the performers of depersonalizing ritual elements? Does borrowing from foreign cultures inevitably amount to a kind of predatory appropriation? Revealing Masks shows that compositional concerns and cultural themes manifested in music theater are central to the history of twentieth-century Euro-American music, drama, and dance.

Author : Tish Dace
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488131

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Martin Sherman by Tish Dace Pdf

Playwright and screenwriter Martin Sherman dramatizes outsiders--gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, class or color--skipping over quicksand as they strive to survive. This book analyzes and evaluates Sherman's work, while correcting previously published errors and establishing the flavor of the critical debate. Devoting more attention to such internationally acclaimed works as Bent and Mrs. Henderson Presents, it also considers less well known and even unpublished and unproduced scripts as well as his working relationships with the luminaries of stage and screen who have appeared in, directed, and produced his plays and screenplays.

Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196223

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Dancing in the Blood by Edward Ross Dickinson Pdf

The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.

Author : Blake Allmendinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496226921

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Geographic Personas by Blake Allmendinger Pdf

During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the American West underwent a series of transformations, certain pivotal figures also undertook a process of self-transformation. Geographic Personas reveals a practice of public performance, impersonation, deception, and fraud, exposing the secret lives of men and women who capitalized on changes occurring in the region. These changes affected the arts; land ownership; scientific exploration; definitions of race, gender, and sexual orientation; and relations between the United States and other countries throughout the world. In addition to well-known figures such as Clarence King and Willa Cather, Geographic Personas examines lesser-known players in the performative process of westward expansion, including Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern American dance; Polish actress Helena Modjeska; Adolf Hitler’s favorite author, Karl May; Japanese poet Yone Noguchi; Sylvester Long, a mixed-race star of Native American silent films whose mother was born into slavery; and the perpetrator of the greatest land grant hoax in U.S. history. While scholars have written about the environmental, demographic, and economic changes that occurred in the West during the nineteenth century, Allmendinger adds a crucial piece to this dialogue. He brings to light the experiences of artists, dancers, film stars, con men, and criminals in stories of self-transformation that are often sad, tragic, and poignant.

Author : Kate Armond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474419642

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Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque by Kate Armond Pdf

Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics

Author : M. Huxley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137439215

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The Dancer's World, 1920 - 1945 by M. Huxley Pdf

The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists, choreographers, dance students and scholars alike.

Author : M. Gregory Kendrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786498680

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Villainy in Western Culture by M. Gregory Kendrick Pdf

Every society has its lineup of wicked, unethical characters--real or fictional--who are regarded as villainous. This book explores how Western societies have used villains to sort insiders from outsiders and establish behavioral norms to support harmony and well-being. There are three parts: nature and "barbarians" as sinister "others" bent on destroying Western civilization; tyrants, traitors and "femmes fatales" as challenges to ideals of legitimate governance, patriotism and gender roles; and gangsters, grifters and murderers as models of evil or unprincipled behavior. The author also discusses two related phenomena: the dramatic paring down of what is considered villainous in the West, and the proliferation of over-the-top villains in pop culture and mass media. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Elizabeth Francis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816633282

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The Secret Treachery of Words by Elizabeth Francis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beauty and the Lonely Beast by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eileen A. Gavin, PhD,Aphrodite Clamar, PhD,Mary Anne Siderits, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826101100

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Women of Vision by Eileen A. Gavin, PhD,Aphrodite Clamar, PhD,Mary Anne Siderits, PhD Pdf

From the reviews: "Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers. It is a useful tool for teaching purposes or for simple, enjoyable, and informative reading." --Psychology of Women Quarterly "...a fascinating look of preservation and perceptiveness that is differentiated from its predecessors in its range of disciplines and emphasis...This new 'life course' approach to understanding female leaders gives valuable insight into the lives of these imminent women, furnishing insights into how the social-economic-political milieu and the attitudes and values of the time played a significant role in the lives of these women but also in all our lives. Women of Vision will serve as a springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and as a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership....The accounts in the book should be of substantial significance for readers interested in gender issues. However, the book will appeal to an even wider audience. Persons hoping to move in new directions in their own lives (e.g., women looking wistfully at new academic and occupational paths after years in stereotypic niches) can surely also find inspiration in the various accounts."--SirReadaLot.org We all know of women of great vision; women whose efforts and accomplishments have had a major impact on the arts, politics, women's rights, sports, or science. But often we may not understand how they became such powerful agents of change and what sorts of questions we should ask of their pasts to understand how the trajectories of their lives were formed. In this extraordinary textbook, leading experts cast new light on the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This is a brand new life-course approach to understanding female leaders and gives valuable insight into the lives of such eminent women as Rachel Carson, Evelyn Gentry Hooker, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Ella Fitzgerald, Alice Paul, Lucille Ball, and many others. Study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter further enhance the text. Women of Vision will serve as the springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership.

Author : Carrie J. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199384587

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Modernism's Mythic Pose by Carrie J. Preston Pdf

Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521837804

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Women, Modernism, and Performance by Penny Farfan Pdf

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