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Ballet and Modern Dance (World of Art) - Softcover

Au, Susan

 
9780500203521: Ballet and Modern Dance (World of Art)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500203520 ISBN 13: 9780500203521
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Anyone with an interest in dance has felt the need for a guide to the art's rich history and complex present state. Susan Au's lucid text covers the entire spectrum of dance, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the dance world of today. A generous selection of illustrations completes the picture, taking the reader from the palaces of the Medici to the lofts of Manhattan, from the dancing of Louis XIV to the experimental choreography of Twyla Tharp and Pina Bausch. A completely new final chapter documents the work of the chief dancers and choreographers from the 1980s to the present, covering offshoots of modern dance such as Tanztheater and Butoh, and recent developments such as performance art and site-specific choreography. The author discusses the upsurge in the popularity of dances of the past, among them ballroom dancing and the Argentine tango, and notes the revival of tap dancing as well as the successful adaptation of Irish stepdancing to the theater. In addition, she records the uses dance and dancers have made of recent technological advances, including cinedance and videodance, CD-ROMs, and the Internet.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Au is a cataloguer of films and videotapes in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library. She was senior researcher for Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works and is a contributor to the International Encyclopaedia of Dance and the New Grove Dictionary of Music in the United States.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500203520
ISBN 13 
9780500203521
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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