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The returns of Alwin Nikolais : bodies, boundaries and the dance canon / Bodies, boundaries and the dance canon edited by Claudia Gitelman and Randy Martin. - xii, 296 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nikolais returns / Randy Martin -- Sense your mass increasing with your velocity: Alwin Nikolais' pedagogy of unified decentralization / Claudia Gitelman -- The omniloquence of Alwin Nikolais ; Artisans of space / Marcia B. Siegel -- Alwin Nikolais, dancing across borders / Yvonne Hardt -- Being motion: Alwin Nikolais' queer objectivity / Rebekah Kowal -- Flights of angels, scattered seeds / Herbert Blau -- The music of Alwin Nikolais: A provisional study / Bob Gilmore -- Motional abstraction: Alwin Nikolais' formalism / Philip Auslander -- 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 / compiled and edited by Naima Prevots ; Chronology of the choreography of Alwin Nikolais / researched and compiled by Jana Feinman ; Log of company performances / compiled by Claudia Gitelman.

ISBN: 081956575X 9780819565754 0819565768 9780819565761

LCCN: 2006101275

Subjects--Personal Names:
Nikolais, Alwin

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Choreographers--United States--Biography

LC Class. No.: GV1785.N62 / R48 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 792.82092