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- Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.
Table of Contents
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- Voice of the Zeitgeist
- pp. vii-xiv
- Electrification
- pp. xv-xix
- Introduction
- pp. 3-10
- Dance before Midnight
- Substanceless Brutality
- pp. 13-16
- Bizarre Newborn Universe
- pp. 17-19
- About Quarry, about Meredith Monk
- pp. 20-22
- Disco Dance: Boogie Down the Blues
- pp. 23-26
- The Art of Ballezz
- pp. 27-31
- Stepping into Time
- pp. 37-40
- David Gordon, or, the Ambiguities
- pp. 41-46
- Merce Cunningham 101
- pp. 47-49
- Douglas Dunn Talking Dancing
- pp. 50-57
- A Walk on the Wild Side
- pp. 61-63
- Bolshoi Bravura
- pp. 64-72
- Notes on Some Dances
- pp. 73-76
- Rhythm for the Eyes, Ears, and Soles
- pp. 77-80
- Awhirl in Every Port
- pp. 81-83
- Under Glass
- pp. 84-85
- “Men Together” and Bloolips
- pp. 91-96
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- pp. 97-103
- Nearly Sort of Not Dance Maybe
- pp. 110-112
- Choreographer Steps Spryly into Television
- pp. 113-116
- Between the Arts
- Theatre of Operations
- pp. 148-166
- Imagination and Play
- pp. 167-185
- The Last Conversation
- pp. 186-197
- Institutionalizing Avant-Garde Performance
- pp. 216-241
- Olfactory Performances
- pp. 242-254
- Beyond the Millennium
- Our Hybrid Tradition
- pp. 257-268
- The Scent of a Dance
- pp. 269-280
- Choreographing Community
- pp. 281-302
- “A New Kind of Beauty”
- pp. 303-324
- TV-Dancing Women
- pp. 325-343
- Elephants in Tutus
- pp. 344-360
- Contributors
- p. 361
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299221539
Related ISBN(s)
9780299221508, 9780299221546
MARC Record
OCLC
318240512
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007