| Description |
xii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A guide to color plates / Claudia Gitelman -- Ch. 1. Nikolais returns / Randy Martin -- Ch. 2. Sense your mass increasing with your velocity : Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Claudia Gitelman -- Ch. 3. The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais / Marcia B. Siegel -- Ch. 4. Artisans of space / Marcia B. Siegel -- Ch. 5. Alwin Nikolais - dancing across borders / Yvonne Hardt -- Ch. 6. Being motion : Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Rebekah Kowal -- Ch. 7. Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Herbert Blau -- Ch. 8. The music of Alwin Nikolais : a provisional study / Bob Gilmore -- Ch. 9. Motional abstraction : Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Philip Auslander -- Ch. 10. Period plots, canonical stages, and post-metanarrative in American modern dance / Mark Franko -- Documents -- Before Henry Street : an undated memoir / Alwin Nikolais -- "On Nikolais" / Murray Louis -- Critical reception of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Edited by Naima Prevots |
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Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / Edited by Jana Feinman -- Log of company performances / Edited by Claudia Gitelman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nikolais, Alwin.
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Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Gitelman, Claudia.
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Martin, Randy, 1957-2015.
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| LC no. |
2006101275 |
| ISBN |
9780819565754 cloth alkaline paper |
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081956575X cloth alkaline paper |
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9780819565761 paperback alkaline paper |
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0819565768 paperback alkaline paper |
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