Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism

Index

Page numbers for illustrations are in boldface. Abrahams, Roger, 381n7 abstract dance, 4-5, 63, 64, 68, 295, 298, 305, 312, 333 Accompaniment for La Monte's "2 sounds" and La Monte's "2 sounds" (Forti and Young), 315 Accumulation (Brown), 15-16, 281 Accumulation Pieces (Brown), 307, 317 Acocella, Joan, 38, 329 acrobatics and gymnastics, 60, 97, 101, 172, 364n49; in breakdancing, 122,124,125,128,134,138,143, 145, 151, 157 aerial dance, 88, 279 aesthetic evaluation, 42 African-American: composers, 69, 365n57; dance style, 63, 64, 6567 ; folklore, 57, 79, influence on breakdancing, 126, 128, 129, 132, 136,149-50 Afternoon (Paxton), 221, 238 "Against Interpretation" (Sontag), 21, 29 agit-prop, 54,95-96, 165, 201, 358n9 Agon (Balanchine), 64, 67 Ahearn, Charles, 128, 131, 139 Ailey, Alvin, Dance Theater, 61,327, 363n35 alcoholism, 171-72 Aldrich, Elizabeth, 31-32,47 Alenikoff, Frances, 275 Alexopoulos, Belene, 54 Index Alf, Fe, 200 Alfven, Hugo, 74 Allard, Lynne, 265, 266 allegory, 92, 95 Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, L' (Morris), 38 Allen, Barbara, 332, 335 Allen, John, dance house, 184, 194, 195, 196, 197-99 Allen, Robert C., 358n15 Allix, G., 86 Alma Mater (Balanchine), 62 Alonso, Alicia, 39-40 Alston, Richard, 293, 300 Alvarez, Albert, 21 American Ballet Theatre, 92, 285, 291, 297, 309, 322, 326, 380n4 American Seamen's Friend Society, 194 analytic postrnodern dance, 217, 226, 254,255,282,295-96,303,307, 308, 309, 312-13, 318, 319-20, 321 Andersen, Hans Christian, 75, 286, 288, 380n4 Anderson, Jack, 27-28 Anderson, Laurie, 254, 294, 308" 320, 321, 323, 334 Andres, Jo, 335 Angelos, Maureen, HI Angolan dance, 150 animal imitation dances, 134 animal movements, 255, 335 "Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance, An" (Kealiinohomoku ), 23 387 388 Index anthropology, 22 Anthropology as Cultural Critique (Marcus and Fischer), 18 Antic Meet (Cunningham), 5 anti-illusionism, 12, 13, 14, 15, 29, 63, 84, 253, 268, 307 Anti-War Cycle (Sokolow), 202 Apollo (Balanchine), 64, 65 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 360nll Apres-midi d'un faune, L' (Nijinsky), 93-94,97 Aragon, Louis, 90 Archer, Kenneth, 324 Archives Internationales de la Danse (Paris),81 Arden Court (Taylor), 26-27 Arevalo, Carlos, 286 Ari, Carina, 72, 74, 81 Arizona (Morris), 218, 223 Armitage, Karole, 293, 297-300, 301, 308, 309, 323, 325, 334, 336; Drastic-Classicism, 254-55,291, 298, 321; The Elizabethan Phrasing ofthe Late Albert Ayler, 298, 322; The Mollino Room, 291-92, 300,322; The Watteau Duets, 298,321-22 Armour, Toby, 221 arms and hands, use of, 66, 260-62, 264 Armstrong, Tim, 48-49 Arnold, Becky, 256 Artaud, Antonin, 9, 354n21 Artists Space exhibition, 288 art-rock, 322, 323 Ashbury, Herbert, 196 Ashley, Robert, 254,320,334 Ashton, Frederick, 173, 362n28 Astaire, Fred, 61, 171, 174-83, 175 Astor, Patty, 131 Atlas, Charles, 115n, 254, 294 Attenberg, Kurt, 75 Auric, George, 78 Austin, Debra, 362n28 autobiography, 335 automatism, 216, 287 avant-garde, 12, 230, 256, 267, 319, 320, 327; and Balanchine, 57, 64, 65; and ballet, 64, 65, 70, 73, 75, 76,291-92,293-94,295;and breakdancing, 131, 133, 134; and Jill Johnston, 3,8; and Judson Dance Theater, 207, 208, 211, 217; and multimedia spectacle, 294, 297, 308, 309; and narrative, 280,281-82, 304; and ordinary body movements, 253-54, 267, 296; and pop culture, 133, 305, 309, 321, 323-24, 336; and postmodernism , 309-10; in the Soviet Union, 57,96,167, 375n19; and theatricality, 252, 253,300,333, 334; and the Workers' Dance League, 199, 200 Aviles, Arthur, 329 Ayler, Albert and Don, 299 B-Boys. See Breakdancing Babes in Arms (Rogers and Hart), 60 Bahr, Donald, 21 Bailey, Pearl, 61 Baker, Josephine, 58, 60, 81, 163-64, 362n29 Baker, Rob, 39-40 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 306 Balanchine, George, 53-69, 110, 291, 293,297-98, 309, 319, 325; abstract ballets, 63, 64,68; and African-AmericanlLatin American dance themes, 62-63; Agon, 64, 67; Apollo, 64, 65; and the avantgarde , 57,64,65; and Babes in Arms' dream ballet "Peter's Journey ," 60; and Baker, Josephine, 58, 60; and the black community, 61-62; and Bradley, Buddy, 59, 61; and Cabin in the Sky collaboration with Dunham, 59, 61, 6465 , 363n34; Concerto Barocco, 64-65, 364n43; and Cunningham , Meree, 110, 253; and the Dance Theater of Harlem, 62, 64,69; and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 58; and Duke, Vernon, 58-59; The Four Temperaments, 40, 54, 63, 65-67, 360nlO, [18.116.90...