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Author Jowitt, Deborah.

Title The dance in mind : profiles and reviews 1976-83 / Deborah Jowitt ; photographs by Lois Greenfield
Edition First edition
Published Boston : D.R. Godine, 1985

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Description xi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Some Masters [mention of Alwin Nikolais]. Back, again, to ballet -- Finding all that glints in glass -- Mr. B. mines the riches of the waltz -- A gem remembered -- Apollo radiant -- Zen and the art of dance -- Confronting the xerox with human grace -- I'm only here to fix the frieze -- Twelve frozen minutes of I want to, but I can't -- What a trail she blazed -- A fishy conversation with an obliging giant -- Under the arch, over the trellis -- Tharp's expanding world -- Tharp against the whirlwind -- Iconoclasts of the Sixties and Seventies. Reckless again -- Twist the opal : what color now? -- At home in the body -- To drip, perchance to steam -- Stay in your flight patterns, angels --Still changing the rules -- Our only dancing philosopher? -- Mapping fields that don't stay still -- Dancing a song -- Underwater all islands connect -- Please draw me a dance -- Loops of tears -- How pristine dare you get? -- When the lion lies down with the lamb -- Ordeal by light -- Senta Driver : stomping out a niche for herself [mention of Bill T. Jones] -- Two different whirls -- The Past Rekindled. Maria Theresa : Isadora's last dancing daughter -- Far from Manhattan -- The partner we can't refuse -- Don't fault Fokine -- Let yellow ring -- View from Mount Olympus -- She gave a lovely light -- Facts that outmyth fiction -- The New Generation [picture of Bill T. Jones and Company in rehearsal] . A shining example -- The women of the hour -- Nina Wiener : on her own track -- Merce's progeny -- Wreaths for those who stick their necks out -- Calligrapher in dance -- Mining one clear view -- Crawling into a womb of rice -- A mouthful of flowers -- Performing is real too [Bill T. Jones] -- A slack string won't resonate, a tight one may snap [mention of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane] -- Modern, Traditional, and Very Popular [mention of Alwin Nikolais]. Man, the marvelous mechanism [Alwin Nikolais] -- Does heroism define a hero? -- Harmony's fervent apostle -- Taking on new shapes -- And Pearl remembered to bring drummers -- Freedom to risk all -- BĂ©jart lands : prepare for ecstasy -- Martine van Hamel feasts on dancing -- Knocking about in the jungle -- Enter the Royal (gasp, snarl) -- Unreeling the images : line taut -- Dancers shot from guns -- Does every company have a Goh? -- Traditions of Other Countries. Consider the ethnic dance -- You tell me your dreams -- Combat with the invisible -- Tempo will tell -- Can a doll drink water? -- Fragrance clings to the sleeve -- Some Other Vistas. A lifetime of art on the Left -- So how's by you, Siegfried? -- London letters -- Why do the ushers wear tap shoes? -- Abandoning the ivory tower -- Art on ice -- Ballet novels : you'll never dance Aurora, dear -- Portrait of the artist as a survivor [Alwin Nikolais]
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Subject Jones, Bill T.
Nikolais, Alwin.
Zane, Arnie, 1948-1988.
Ballet -- Reviews.
Dance -- Reviews.
Dance.
Modern dance -- Reviews.
Genre/Form Reviews.
LC no. 84047654
ISBN 0879235349