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The dance experience : readings in dance appreciation
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- Creator
- edited by Myron Howard Nadel and Constance Gwen Nadel
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Praeger, 1970
- ©1970
- Physical Details
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- xii, 388 pages ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00100532, ocm00100532
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. The Nature of Dance. A dance aesthetic. "A Prolegomenon to an aesthetics of dance "/ Selma Jean Cohen -- Spiritual values of dance. "The spirit of dance" / Myron Howard Nadel -- Dance as an independent art. "Virtual powers" / Suzanne Langer -- "Phenomenology : an approach to dance" / Maxine Sheets -- Dance as symbolic movement. "Symbolic forms of dance" / Eleanor Metheny (with Lois Ellfeldt) -- Part II. The Creative Personality and the Choreographic Process. The creative person. "What makes a person creative?" / Donald W. MacKinnon -- Creativity and mental health. "Creativity and mental health : are they related?" / Benjamin B. Wolman -- Creating a product. "The process of creating a dance" / Myron Howard Nadel -- The product. "Chance and design in choreography" / George Beiswanger -- Part III. Forms of Dance. "The Ballet" / Myron Howard Nadel -- The folk forms. "Question and answer" / Youry and Elizabeth Yourlo -- Modern dance. "America's modern dance" / Doris Humphrey -- Dance of the absurd. "Dance : a review" / Faubion Bowers -- "The new new dance" / Erica Abeel -- Part IV. The Language and Literature of Dance. The analysis and preservation of movement : Labanotation. "Dance notation makes legend into history" / Elizabeth Burtner -- "Benesh notation and choreology" / Fernau Hall -- Choreoscript. "A new method of dance notation" / Alwin Nikolais -- A language for effort analysis. "Effort : an introduction" / Irmgard Bartenieff -- Part V. Dance and the Other Arts. "Is the creative process similar in the arts?" / Julius Portnoy -- "Modern art and the ballet : the trend is toward separation" / Emily Genauer -- Dancing in theatrical productions. "Interview" / Helen Tamiris -- Using movement for theatre. "Movement and the theatre" / Carol Egan -- Dance in opera. "Movement in opera" / Antony Tudor -- Dance and music : similar foundations. "Dance and music" / Margaret H'Doubler -- Dance and music : a practical marriage. "Music is the strongest ally to a dancer's way of life" / José Limón -- Part VI. Dance Criticism. "Taste and judgment in aesthetic experience" / Bertram Jessup -- Advice to the uninitiated dance audience. "Erick Hawkins addresses a new-to-dance audience" / Erick Hawkins -- The dance audience, the choreographer, and valid experimentation. "The audience and the choreographer : a sense of responsibility" / Myron Howard Nadel -- The professional critic. "To be a critic" / Walter Sorell -- Reading dance criticism. "The uses of criticism" / Joan B. Cass -- Part VII. The Dance Artist. The influence of the artist. "The spirit of Isadora Duncan" / Maria-Theresa -- The background and motivation of a dance artist. "How I became a dancer" / Martha Graham -- A man of genius. "The genius of Balanchine" / Bernard Taper -- The dancer as actor. "The American ballerina" / Nora Kaye -- The scope of a choreographer. "Confessions of a choreographer" / Calvin Tomkins -- Part VIII. Problems in Dance. Changing the present structure : an eighteenth-century view. "Author's Preface" and "Letter I" / Jean Georges Noverre -- Leadership or control? "A new look at Balanchineballet" / Douglas Turnbaugh -- Physical education or an independent art? "Physical education and the emergence of the modern dance" / George Beiswanger -- Dance in physical education : an administrative set-up revealed. "Excerpts from 'A survey of dance education in the elementary and secondary schools in the state of Wisconsin'" / Myron Howard Nadel -- Dance and physical education : a relationship clarified. "Major shortcomings of physical education" / Myron Howard Nadel -- Men in dance. "Why does a man dance, and what does he dance, and who should watch him?" / Erick Hawkins -- Part IX. Facets of Dance Education. Dance as a basic educational tool. "Education through dance" / Margaet H'Doubler -- Building the instrument for dance. "Psychomotor function as correlated with body mechanics and posture" / Lulu E. Sweigard -- "Freedom through discipline" / Roberta Meyer