Martha Graham
When Dance Became Modern
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: the legacy begins -- Pittsburgh -- Santa Barbara -- Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn: the Denishawn Dancers -- Horst -- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Kandinsky and Isadora Duncan -- The Eastman School -- From Mariarden to John Martin -- Neighborhood Playhouse -- Heretic -- Dance Repertory Theatre and Lamentation -- Introducing: Isamu Noguchi -- League of Composers and The Rite of Spring in America -- Northwest to Southwest -- Know the land -- Primitive Mysteries -- "We will never understand one another" -- From Ceremonials to Radio City Music Hall -- The American rhythm -- Airborne -- Erick Hawkins and Lincoln Kirstein -- Interlude: Chronicle -- American Document -- Every Soul Is a Circus -- Deaths and Entrances: ten characters in search of a dance -- Interlude: Appalachian Spring -- Dark Meadow -- Serpent Heart -- The "break-up" -- Horst revisited -- Eye of Anguish -- The choice -- Coda.
Subjects:
Graham, Martha.
Dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
Modern dance.
Graham, Martha.
Dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
Modern dance.
ISBN:
9780385352321
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Graham, Martha | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-527) and index.