TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolcio,Katja Pylyshenko
TI  - Movable pillars: organizing dance, 1956-1978 
SN  - 0819569119
AV  - GV1623 .K65 2010
U1  - 792.80973 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Dance
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dance companies
KW  - Dance teachers
KW  - Interviews
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index; Precedents : dance as education, art, and culture --The post-war political climate -- Performing a public voice : the emergence of six organizations, 1956-1970 -- Telling of the times : interviews -- The American Dance Guild, 1956 -- The Congress on Research in Dance, 1965 -- The American Dance Therapy Association, 1966 -- The American College Dance Festival Association, 1973 -- The Dance Critics Association, 1974 -- The Society of Dance History Scholars, 1978
N2  - "Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This surge was reflected in the emergence of six key dance organizations: the American Dance Guild, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Dance Therapy Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, the Dance Critics Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars." "Katja Kolcio argues that their founding between the years 1956 and 1978 marked a new period of collective action in dance and is directly related to the inclusion of moving bodies in scholarly research and the ways in which dance studies interfaces with other fields such as feminist studies, critical research methods, and emancipatory education." "A work of archival scholarship and interpretive history, Movable Pillars features nineteen interviews with dance luminaries who were intimately involved in the early years of each group. This is the first book to focus on the founding of these professional organizations and constitutes a major contribution to the understanding of the development of dance in American higher education."--BOOK JACKET
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