E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
Main Transmissions in Dance
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-64873-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Contemporary Staging Practices
E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-3-319-64873-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. The breadth of practice on offer illustrates the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and, further, that there is a growing appetite amongst audiences for seeing dances from the near and far past. This study spans a century, from Rudolf Laban's Dancing Drumstick (1913) to Robert Cohan's Sigh (2015), and examines works by Mary Wigman, Madge Atkinson (Natural Movement), Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Yvonne Rainer and Rosemary Butcher, an eclectic mix that crosses time and borders.
Lesley Main is Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Middlesex University, UK, and Director of the Doris Humphrey Foundation UK. She stages Humphrey's dances for companies in Europe and the USA, and is the author of Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey: the Creative Impulse of Reconstruction (2012).
