The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographs This book chronicles one hundred years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern, and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume is magisterial in scope, encompassing the history of theatrical dance from 1900 through 2000. Beginning with turn-of-the-century dancer-choreographers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine, and a bit later Vaslav Nijinsky, and proceeding through the profusion of dance styles performed today, the book provides an unparalleled view of dance in performance as it changed and grew in the twentieth century. Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick set dance in broader cultural and historical contexts, examine specific dance works, and explore the contributions of outstanding choreographers, performers, visual artists, impresarios, composers, critics, and other figures. They discuss the breakaway barefoot dance of the early 1900s and demonstrate its links with later forms and styles. With unusual detail, fascinating illustrations, and wide-ranging insights, this book is an indispensable guide to the transformations in the dance scene of the twentieth century.

No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century

REYNOLDS, Nancy

McCormick, Malcolm

History

Yale University Press

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographsWinner of the 2005 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Publication in Dance Research 
"This work is not just reader friendly, it's downright compelling in its chronicle of the most explosively revolutionary century the art form of dance has ever experienced."—Karen Campbell, Christian Science Monitor This book chronicles one hundred years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern, and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume is magisterial in scope, encompassing the history of theatrical dance from 1900 through 2000. Beginning with turn-of-the-century dancer-choreographers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine, and a bit later Vaslav Nijinsky, and proceeding through the profusion of dance styles performed today, the book provides an unparalleled view of dance in performance as it changed and grew in the twentieth century. Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick set dance in broader cultural and historical contexts, examine specific dance works, and explore the contributions of outstanding choreographers, performers, visual artists, impresarios, composers, critics, and other figures. They discuss the breakaway barefoot dance of the early 1900s and demonstrate its links with later forms and styles. With unusual detail, fascinating illustrations, and wide-ranging insights, this book is an indispensable guide to the transformations in the dance scene of the twentieth century.

Humor & Entertainment

The dance catalog

Harmony Books+

Covers 150 years of dance classics--from La Sylphide to Push Comes to Shove--with photographs and background material on individual works

In Performance: A Companion to the Classics of the Dance

Arts & Photography

Reimer-Torn, Susan

Performing Arts

Repertory in Review: 40 Years of the New York City Ballet

DIAL PRESS

Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now been largely lost. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and native in city space and commercial merchandise were never so starkly drawn. Consumer goods occupied an uneasy place on anti-colonial agendas for decades in Egypt before the great Cairo Fire. Nationalist leaders frequently railed against commerce as a form of colonial captivity, yet simultaneously expanded local production and consumption to anchor a newly independent economy. Close examination of struggles over dress and shopping reveals that nationhood coalesced informally from the conflicts and collaboration of consumers "from below" as well as more institutional and prescriptive mandates.

A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt

Business & Money

Economics

Stanford University Press

Combine art production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics into your middle school classes! Includes 56 easy-to-follow lessons Follows the Discipline-Based Art Education Curriculum Provides objectives, vocabulary lists, materials evaluation guides, and much more for each lesson

Art Lessons for the Middle School a Dbae Curriculum

Study & Teaching

J.Weston Walch

Describes the plot, key elements, and history of more than fifty favorite ballets and modern dances

Dance Classics: A Viewer's Guide to the Best-Loved Ballets and Modern Dances

Swope, Martha

A Cappella Books

Description: Celebrate the art and work of George Balanchine, widely considered this century's foremost choreographer. Born in Russia then exiled to Paris in 1924, Balanchine moved to the United States in 1933 and, with Lincoln Kirstein, eventually formed the New York City Ballet. Balanchine spent the rest of his life building the company and creating an extraordinary dance repertoire. Balanchine pictures a wide range of the choreographer's work in performances by the New York City Ballet. Notes: The year 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of Balanchine's birth. Because of this, several celebratory events will be occuring. This calendar will serve as a fitting memorial to the master of choreography and is expected to sell especially well. Works and dancers featured include: JAN Lindsay Fischer and Kyra Nichols in "Diamonds" from Jewels FEB Maria Kowroski in Liebeslieder Walzer MAR Nikolaj Hubbe in Mozartiana APR A Midsummer Night's Dream MAY Maria Kowroski in Serenade JUN La Valse JUL Stars and Stripes AUG Jock Soto and Kathleen Tracey in Firebird SEP Margaret Tracey and Kathleen Tracey in Concerto Barocco OCT "Rubies" from Jewels NOV Philip Neal and Carla Korbes in Divertimento No. 15 DEC Miranda Weese in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker(TM)

Balanchine 2007 Calendar

Calendars

Tide-Mark Pr Ltd

The Miracle Portal

Religion & Spirituality

Amber Anthony

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