Dance history : an introduction / edited by Janet Adshead-Landsdale and June Layson. - Second edition, revised and updated. - xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Historical perspectives in the study of dance -- Dance history source materials -- The dance history literature: a reader's guide -- Traditional dance: English ceremonial and social forms -- Traditional dance in West Africa -- Regional evidence for social dance with particular reference to a Yorkshire spa town, Harrogate, UK -- Ballets lost and found: restoring the twentieth-century repertoire -- Enrico Cecchetti: the influence of tradition -- Rambert Dance Company Archive, London, UK -- European early modern dance -- Expression and expressionism in American modern dance -- Beyond expressionism: Merce Cunningham's critique of 'the natural' -- Re-tracing our steps: the possibilities for feminist dance histories -- Pathways to studying dance history -- Writing dance history -- Appendix A: Dance history texts annotated -- Appendix B: Selected list of reference texts -- Appendix C: Selected list of periodicals. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Dance--History--Study and teaching

GV1589. / D38 1994

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