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The book looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics
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Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Gabriele Brandstetter
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between
Poetics of Contemporary Dance
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Pages: 285
Authors: Laurence Louppe
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"Drawing on the whole practical and theoretical heritage of modern dance and its pre-cursors and including discussion of works up to and including the 1980s, Lo
Dance Pathologies
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Felicia M. McCarren
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A history of dance’s pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body’s transcendence of it
Dance [and] Theory
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Authors: Gabriele Brandstetter
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Both the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, da