History of dance : an interactive arts approach /
Gayle Kassing.
- xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-300) and index.
Getting started -- Capturing dance from the past -- Tools for capturing the past -- Early dance history -- Dance at the dawn of time -- Ancient civilizations -- Middle Ages through the Renaissance -- Modern history: Renaissance to the twentieth century -- Dance at court: late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Dance from court to theater: the eighteenth century -- Romantic to classic ballet: the nineteenth century -- Dance in the United States: seventeenth century through the nineteenth century -- Twentieth century American dance -- Foreign influences: 1900-1929 -- Emerging American dance: 1930-1944 -- Maturing classics: 1945-1959 -- Chance and change: 1960-1979 -- New directions: 1980-2000 -- Appendix A: developing a webquest -- Appendix B: significant dance works -- Appendix C: how to write a research paper -- Appendix D: reconstruction project -- Appendix E: performance, video, or dvd report -- Appendix F: ideas for extended and culminating projects for parts i.