| Description |
viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Rules and directions for dancing the "Passo e Mezo" from Il Ballerino (Venice, 1581) / Fabritio Caroso -- Ballet comique de la reine (Paris, 1582) / Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx -- How to compose successful ballets from La manière de composer et de faire réussir les ballets (Paris, 1641) / Saint-Hubert -- The minuet from der Rechtshaffener Tantzmeister (Leipzig, 1717) / Gilbert Taubert -- The loves of Mars and Venus (London, 1717) / John Weaver -- Two letters on dancing from Lettres sur la danse et lees ballets (Stuttgart, 1760) / Jean George Noverre -- An account of the principles of our tradition from Théorie de la gymnastique de la danse théâtrale (Paris, 1859) / G. Leopold Adice -- La sylphide (Copenhagen, 1836) / August Bournonville -- Review of Fanny Cerrito and Marie Guy-Stephan from La Presse (1846, 1853) / Theophile Gautier -- The Sleeping Beauty (St. Petersburg, 1889) / Marius Petipa -- The new ballet, from Argus (1916) / August Fokine -- The creation of "Parade," from My life in ballet / Leonide Massine -- The spirit of the classic dance, from Theatre arts monthly (1925) / Andre Levinson -- The dancer of the future, from The art of the dance (New York, 1928) / Isadora Duncan -- Music visualization, from the Denishawn magazine (1925) / Ruth St. Denis -- A modern dancer's primer for action, from Dance: a basic educational technique (New York, 1941) / Martha Graham -- New dance (New York, 1935) / Doris Humphrey -- The philosophy of modern dance, from Europa (1933) / Mary Wigman -- The construction of the lesson, from Basic principles of classical ballet (Leningrad, 1934) / Aprippina Vaganova -- Our point of view, from The Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow, 1960) / Yuri Slonimsky -- A conservation, from Covent Garden book (1964) / Frederick Ashton -- Talk about new ballets, from Dance Magazine (1966) / Anthony Tudor -- Dances at a gathering, from Dance magazine (1969) / Jerome Robbins -- Work in progress, from Intellectual digest (1972) / George Balanchine -- Two questions and five dances, from Dance perspectives (1968) / Merce Cunningham -- Plan for a television production of "Tent," from Dance perspectives (1971) / Alwin Nikolais -- "Vessel": an opera epic, from The drama review (1972) / Meredith Monk |
| Notes |
Also published: Princeton, NJ., Dance Horizons Books, c1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) |
| Subject |
Dance -- History -- Sources.
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| Author |
Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005.
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| LC no. |
73015380 |
| ISBN |
0060413158 |
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0396068944 |
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9780060413156 |
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9780396068945 |
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