The dance experience : insights into history, culture, and creativity /
Myron Howard Nadel and Marc Raymond Strauss.
- The all new 2nd edition.
- xxi, 344 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Appreciating the world of dance. Through world eyes / Dance in early Greek society / African dance : Divine motion / Folk dance : Father music, mother dance / Piercing the mask of Japanese dance theater / Social dance : A portrait of people at play ; And "all that jazz" dance / Ballet : a history in broad brushstrokes / Currents of 20th and 21st century dance / Connecting mind, body and spirit / The dance experience. Dance on the screen / Of dainty gorillas and macho sylphs : dance and gender / A failed marriage : dance and physical education ; Technique : the craft of dancing ; Seeing choreography : separating the dance from the dancer / What is dance notation? / Collaboration among the arts / Seeing feelings : costume design and dance / "As a fish lives in water, a dancer lives in light" / Dance, music, and theater in theory and practice / Dance criticism ; Conclusion: Your dance experience / Carl Wolz -- Marc Raymond Strauss -- Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker -- Rosa Guerrero -- Helen Myers -- Myron Howard Nadel -- Carol Pardo -- Myron Howard Nadel with March Raymond Strauss -- Myron Howard Nadel -- Marc Raymond Strauss -- Janice La Pointe-Crump -- Myron Howard Nadel -- Ann Hutchinson Guest -- Marc Raymond Strauss -- Catherine F. Norgren -- Rick Yeatman -- Myron Howard Nadel -- Marc Raymond Strauss.