| Description |
xvi, 204 pages, 38 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1976-1977. Modern depends on where you start from -- Dancing through the language barrier -- Getting grander -- minimally -- Gestures in Graz -- How to build a cloud -- Dancing the idea -- And now the weather report -- Merce in America -- Roz Newman said -- Variations for an invisible theme -- A taste of plain -- Structure as outpost -- Disciplined upstarts -- Hodge podge rampage -- It isn't her name -- Working the residue -- Has the piece begun, or is this the end? -- My debut -- Image reinforcement -- 1977-1978. Twyla's natural instinct -- Harlequinade -- Minimal differences, major distinctions -- Laps -- Slice of the universe -- Critturs' gym -- Cushioning the minimalist pew -- Unidentical twins -- Matters of Merce -- Rille -- Dancing parttime -- Multiple exposure -- 1978-1979. Erasures and afterthoughts -- Partly to mostly variable -- Backwater: twosome -- Tharpsichore in Brooklyn -- There are ethnics and ethnix -- Creative doodling -- After my lecture -- Games of candor -- Seance with approving gods -- Tropics of minimalism -- 1979-1980 : Two-finger tunes and concertos -- Pulling apart together -- Beadwork and fringe -- Keeping house among the pines -- Pleasures of perversity -- Far from Denmark -- Mauve punk -- Minimalism meets maximalism -- Papyri -- Hurdling through the limelight -- Mediadance -- Higher math -- Mediadance -- Fugues and fights -- Remembrance of pratfalls past -- Professional prophet -- Avant-garde for the opera house -- Laughter in a time of crux -- Traumerei -- Queen of the natural -- Pavement parties -- 1980-1981. Return of the scream -- Wind that knows about war -- After the tea ceremony -- Revolution on a leash -- The death of Lennon -- Love isn't all we need -- Friendly occasions -- Already, postmodernism -- Gordian slipknot -- Serious fun -- Slings & arrows & runaway escalators -- Erotic rage -- Smile and forget -- Treetop telegrams -- Modern 101 -- Marathons and mudpies -- 1981-1982. Comforts of hell -- Apocalyptic circus -- Scrollwork -- Overdrive -- Tharp down the line -- Exhibit A and possibly B -- New dance in America: an excess of success? -- Relativity -- Mediadance -- Excavating Judson -- The aesthetics of brawn -- Vanguard meets the mainstream -- The death of some alternatives |
| Analysis |
Modern dance |
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Modern dance |
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Modern dance |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages [191]-196 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Choreography -- History.
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Modern dance -- History.
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Modern dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Modern dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- Reviews.
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| Author |
Tileston, Nathaniel.
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| LC no. |
91000522 |
| ISBN |
0822311569 (cloth) |
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0822311666 (paperback) |
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