Reinventing dance in the 1960s
Subtitle: everything was possible
By: edited by Sally Banes with the assistance of Andrea Harris ; with a foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Contributors: Banes, Sally.; Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Modern dance -- History; Dance -- Anthropological aspects
Other titles: Reinventing dance in the nineteen hundred sixties
Description: The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume a range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gulliver's hamburger : defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant Garde / Sally Banes; title: Anna Halprin and the 1960s : acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / Janice Ross; title: James Waring and the Judson Dance Theater : influences, intersections, and divergences / Leslie Satin; title: The philosophy of art history, dance, and the 1960s / Noël Carroll; title: Dance quote unquote / Jill Johnston; title: Dancing in New York : the 1960s / Gus Solomons, Jr.; title: Monk and King : the sixties kids / Deborah Jowitt; title: One route from ballet to postmodern / Wendy Perron; title: Radical discoveries : pioneering post-modern dance in Britain / Stephanie Jordan; title: Ballet review's beginnings : an interview with Arlene Croce / Joan Acocella and Sally Banes; title: PastForward choreographers' statements / Tricia Brown ... [et al.].