| Description |
xx, 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Rehearsal -- The Denishawn succession -- Beginnings. Air for the G string (Humphrey) ; Water Study (Humphrey) ; Life of the Bee (Humphrey) ; Lamentation (Graham) ; Negro Spirituals (Tamiris) -- Ritual. Primitive Mysteries (Graham) ; The Shakers (Humphrey) -- Neoclassicism I. Serenade (Balanchine) ; New Dance (Humphrey) ; Passacaglia (Humphrey) ; Concerto Barocco (Balanchine) -- Americana ballet. Frankie and Johnny (Page-Stone) ; Filling Station (Christensen) ; Billy the Kid (Loring) ; Rodeo (De Mille) ; Fancy Free (Robbins) -- Crystallization I. Frontier to Appalachian Spring (Graham) ; Pillar of fire (Tudor) ; Day on Earth (Humphrey) ; The Moor's Pavane (Limón) -- The epic Graham. Letter to the World ; Deaths and Entrances ; Hérodiade ; Dark Meadow ; Errand into the Maze ; Night Journey -- Balanchine's America. Four Temperaments ; Ivesiana ; Agon ; Episodes -- Adolescents. Interplay (Robbins) ; N.Y. Export : Opus Jazz (Robbins) ; Moves (Robbins) ; Deuce Coupe (Tharp) -- Crystallization II. Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) ; Rooms (Sokolow) -- Revelations (Ailey) ; Summerspace and Winterbranch (Cunningham) ; Private Domain (Taylor) -- Men Dancing [including Daniel Nagrin and Alwin Nikolais] -- Neoclassicism II. Septet (Cunningham) ; Aureole (Taylor) ; Early Feld ; As Time Goes By and Push Comes to Shove (Tharp) -- Chronology -- Notes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 375-377 |
| Subject |
Nagrin, Daniel.
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Nikolais, Alwin.
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Ballet -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Ballet -- United States.
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Dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Dance -- United States -- History.
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Modern dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Modern dance -- United States.
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| LC no. |
84028039 |
| ISBN |
0520042034 |
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0520042123 (paperback) |
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