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The dance experience : insights into history, culture, and creativity
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- Creator
- Myron Howard Nadel and Marc Raymond Strauss, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Third edition
- Hightstown, NJ : Princeton Book Co., 2014
- Physical Details
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- xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780871273833, 0871273837
- OCLC
- ocn859675259
- "This newly revised edition includes five new chapters and an extensive, annotated appendix of film and Internet resources giving helpful suggestions for viewing that will enhance the dance experience."--Publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The dance experience in the 21st century. Insights into history. Dance in Ancient Greece / Marc Strauss -- A concise history of ballet / Carol Pardo -- Modern and contemporary dance / Myron Howard Nadel and Marc Strauss -- Jazz and tap / Myron Howard Nadel -- Dance on the screen / Marc Strauss -- Dance in American colleges and universities / Thomas K. Hagood -- Dance notation- a history / Lynne Weber -- Insights into culture. From a world dance perspective / Carl Wolz -- Dance and cultural meaning- an introduction to the anthropology of dance / Lisa Smith -- African dance- divine motion / Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker-Bronson -- Piercing the mask of Japanese dance theater / Helen Myers -- Social dance- a portrait of a people at play / Myron Howard Nadel -- Folk dance- father music, mother dance / Rosa Guerrero -- Insights into creativity. Technique- the craft of dancing / Myron Howard Nadel -- Choreography- separating the dancer from the dance / Myron Howard Nadel -- As a fish lives in water, a dancer lives in light / Rick Yeatman -- Seeing feelings- Costume design and dance / Catherine F. Norgren -- Technical elements in presenting dance / Philip K. Nacy -- Conclusion: Critiquing dance: Marc Strauss