Morris, Gay, 1940-

A game for dancers : performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945/1960 / Gay Morris. - xxviii, 254 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The trouble with modern dance -- Ballet's challenge -- Modernist theory : John Martin, Edwin Denby, John Cage -- Embodying community -- African-American vanguardism : 1940s -- African-American vanguardism : 1950s -- Objectivism's consonance. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.

081956804X (cloth : alk. paper) 0819568058 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006000181


Modern dance--History

GV1619 / .M67 2006

792.809/045