choreography history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets

Book by R. Chamberlain Duerden; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Ballet, Choreography, Tudor, Antony--1909-1987--Criticism And Interpretation

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...certain point through reference to written documentation. A choreography may be recorded in notation or on film, and be accessible...works, enduring through the shifting currents of human history, tend to become linked or open to being linked to contingent...
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The Choreographic Art: An Outline of Its Principles and Craft

Book by Peggy Van Praagh, Peter Brinson, Robert Bruce Church; Alfred A. Knopf, 1963

Subjects:

Choreography

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...with its history and with the principles of Choreography, and five...CHOREOGRAPHER IN HISTORY...IV Romantic Choreography 23...the art of choreography. PART II...CHOREOGRAPHER IN HISTORY -12- CHAPTER...
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Body, Movement, and Culture: Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community

Book by Sally Ness Ann; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

Subjects:

Choreography--Social Aspects--Philippines--Cebu City--Case Studies, Folk Dancing--Social Aspects--Philippines--Cebu City--Case Studies, Sinulog (Dance)

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...ethnographer who studies choreography as a performer. The...ritual process. Its history and changing social...the brief but complex history of this assertedly...stylistically coherent choreography of this form. The concluding...itself. The sinulog choreography, as I came to understand...
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Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft

Book by Joyce Morgenroth; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Choreographers--United States--Biography, Choreography

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Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham ...
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Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft delves into the choreographic processes of some of America's most engaging and revolutionary dancemakers. Based on personal interviews, the book's narratives reveal the methods and quests of, among others, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Mark Morris. Morgenroth shows how the ideas, craft, and passion that go into their work have led these choreographers to disrupt known forms and expectations. The history of dance in the making is revealed through the stories of these intelligent, articulate, and witty dance masters.
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Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self

Book by Randy Martin; Bergin & Garvey, 1990

Subjects:

Body, Human, Performing Arts--Political Aspects, Postmodernism

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Proposing a new source for political impulse in the West, this volume seeks to re-embody the political subject, arguing that when the mind has been dominated by mass communication as in Western capitalism the body emerges as a site of opposition. An explication of the making of a modern dance and a ...
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Proposing a new source for political impulse in the West, this volume seeks to re-embody the political subject, arguing that when the mind has been dominated by mass communication as in Western capitalism the body emerges as a site of opposition. An explication of the making of a modern dance and a comparison of Soviet and American political theatre are linked by a sustained discussion that critiques semiotic and phenomenological approaches to the body and outlines a body politics.
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Shamanic Dance in Japan: The Choreography of Possession in Kagura Performance

Journal article by Irit Averbuch; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 57, 1999

Subjects:

Choreography--Analysis, Folk dancing--Japan, Japan--Social aspects, Shamanism--Analysis, Spirit possession--Folklore, legends, etc., Trance--Analysis

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...influence. Even so, masks have a long history in Japan, and are often treated as sacred...shimbutsu bunri) and a case study: Tonomine. History of Religions 23: 240-65. GRIM, John...Tari 1971 Iwate-ken minzoku geino shi The history of the folk performing arts in Iwate Prefecture...
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Al-andalus in Andalusia: Negotiating Moorish History and Regional Identity in Southern Spain

Journal article by Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 80, 2007

Subjects:

Christianity, Christians, Community, Debates, European history, Festivals, Field study, Immigration, Politics, Religious conversion, Secondary school students

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...from music, costumes, battle reenactment choreography to advertising. The work that went into...that both in the festival and in the history of the area both Moors and Christians...possible historical referents in Spanish history are thus visible in the process of the...
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Dance and the Garden: Moving and Static Choreography in Renaissance Europe

Journal article by Jennifer Nevile; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999

Subjects:

Dancing--Social aspects, Garden walks--Social aspects, Gardens--Design and construction, Renaissance--Social aspects

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Garden: Moving and Static Choreography in Renaissance Europe...these gardens important in the history of art and architecture but...work of scholars of garden history and it would not have been...Both garden design and choreography are concerned with manipulating...
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A Touching and Contagious Captain Cook: Thinking History through Things

Journal article by Stephen Muecke; Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 14, 2008

Subjects:

Ecology, Human subjects, Ideology, Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...simultaneous multiple-coding in poetry, melody, repetition and choreography, all the elements to make the affective body thrill in sympathy-and...Descola,8 giving us another way of thinking about the ecology of history-making sites without having time as a founding methodological...
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Labyrinth Dances in the French and English Renaissance

Journal article by Thomas M. Greene; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2001

Subjects:

Choreography--Philosophy, Dancing--Philosophy, Labyrinths--Usage, Renaissance--Social aspects

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...apparently reflected in the choreography by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx...ubiquitous and long-lived in the history of European cultures. It is...21) 3. THE MEANDERS OF HISTORY If we return now to Dorats...It also sheds light on the choreography of Beaujoyeulx, to whose masterwork...

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Born to Dance: Choreography in a Beehive

Magazine article by Thomas D. Seeley; Natural History, Vol. 108, June 1999

Subjects:

Animal behavior, Animal communication, Bees, Movement

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Born to Dance: Choreography in a Beehive by Thomas D. Seeley Most insects that live in cold temperate regions are dormant in winter: carpenter ants hide...
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Fokine Marvellous

Magazine article by Richard Sennett; New Statesman, Vol. 129, September 18, 2000

Subjects:

Ballet--Art, Choreography--History, Dancing--Art, Fokine, Michel--Conduct of life, Kirov Ballet Company--Performances

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...Benois co-ordinated costumes with the stage sets; and the choreography daringly makes the dancers shoulders as expressive as their...How he did so has been recovered for us by Drummond (whom history will remember as a dance researcher, rather than a class warrior...
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Attitudes

Magazine article by Clive Barnes; Dance Magazine, Vol. 78, February 2004

Subjects:

Balanchine, George--Appreciation, Balanchine, George--Influence, Choreographers--Appreciation, Choreographers--Criticism and interpretation, Choreographers--Influence, Choreography--Criticism and interpretation, Choreography--History, Kirstein, Lincoln Edward--Influence, Massine, Leonide--Criticism and interpretation

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...placed more or less equal emphasis on music, design, and drama, as well as dance. After Diaghilevs death, when Massine made history with his "symphonic ballets," he approached a neoclassical style closer to Balanchine (and later, Frederick Ashton). There...
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Trisha Brown: Choreography That Spans Continents and Oceans

Magazine article by Roslyn Sulcas; Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, April 1995

Subjects:

Brown, Trisha--Practice, Choreographers--Practice

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...increasingly theatrical aspects of Browns choreography and the growing public recognition of...choreographed piece. (A first in the history of choreographer-composer collaboration...and in the artistic influence that her choreography has exercised outside of her country...
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On Broadway: With the Persians, the National Theater of Greece Shows How Powerfully Choreography Can Enhance a Straight Play

Magazine article by Sylviane Gold; Dance Magazine, Vol. 80, December 2006

Subjects:

Broadway theater--Forecasts and trends, Broadway theater--Services, Operas--Criticism and interpretation, Theater companies--Forecasts and trends, Theater companies--Services

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...Greece Shows How Powerfully Choreography Can Enhance a Straight Play...in his straight play The History Boys. Theater audiences...weve seen since Contact, choreography continues to be sadly underused...that carefully integrated choreography can add. These thoughts are...

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Choreography

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 15, 2009

Subjects:

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Choreography. Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES CHOREOGRAPHY Barack Obama found it exciting, and Hillary Clinton saw it...put at 85 percent, voter turnout was the highest in Irans history. Ahmadinejad won with 63 percent, collecting more votes than...
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Words by Machiavelli, Choreography by Pan's People, and Yet It Worked

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 29, 2009

Subjects:

Mandelson, Peter

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pointed at, you guessed it, himself. Words by Machiavelli. Choreography by Pans People. My favourite line was when he mentioned George...perked-up applause, and that standing ovation unprecedented in the history of Mandelsonia. DELEGATES were later addressed by the Spanish...
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Words by Machiavelli, Choreography by Pan's People, and Yet It Worked; on a Piratical Performance from the Podium

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 29, 2009

Subjects:

Mandelson, Peter

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pointed at, you guessed it, himself. Words by Machiavelli. Choreography by Pans People. My favourite line was when he mentioned George...perked-up applause, and that standing ovation unprecedented in the history of Mandelsonia. DELEGATES were later addressed by the Spanish...
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MOTHER OF RE-INVENTION; Her Shows Have Outraged Everyone from the Pope to Kevin Costner. Now, Madonna Is Back with Her Re-invention Tour - Boasting an Electric Chair, Naked Men and the Usual Slick Choreography. Here, the Ticket Charts the History of Britain's Long-Standing Love Affair with Madonna in the Flesh

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Electric Chair, Naked Men and the Usual Slick Choreography. Here, the Ticket Charts the History of Britains Long-Standing Love Affair with...down the sex and made more of the music and choreography. Her costumes included a punkish tartan...
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Kaylee Fights NHS Drugs Fee; Pioneer Says Charge Unfair

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 2, 2008

Subjects:

Drugs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...alive?" The 21-year-old made medical history at five months old when she became the...heart transplant. But after giving up her choreography college course due to its physical demands...still hasnt clicked that I made medical history and I am quite moved. "It is hard, but...

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Ballet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...before, indicated in his choreography the direction of intensified...Bibliography See S. Lifar, A History of Russian Ballet (tr...F. Reyna, A Concise History of Ballet (tr. 1965...Ballet: An Illustrated History (1973); E. Binney...
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Modern Dance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that remained unique in the history of dance theater until the...documentation to describe his choreography, he founded (1910) a school...Denishawn devised their own choreography and launched their own companies...rhythms changed the emphasis of choreography. They had no desire to uplift...

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