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- The Phenomenology of Dance
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- 2015
- Published by: Temple University Press
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When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: “When we look at a dance, what do we see?” Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the nature of movement.
Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance.
Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance.
Table of Contents
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- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. xxxi-xxxviii
- 1. Perspective
- pp. 1-6
- 5. Abstraction
- pp. 47-61
- 6. Expression
- pp. 62-68
- 7. Dynamic Line
- pp. 69-80
- 9. The Imaginative Space of Dance
- pp. 91-104
- 11. Educational Implications: Dance as Art
- pp. 116-124
- Bibliography
- pp. 133-138
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439912638
Related ISBN(s)
9781439912614, 9781439912621
MARC Record
OCLC
910102981
Pages
180
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015