On Stage Alone

by Gitelman, Claudia; Palfy, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780813040257
• ISBN10: 0813040256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-12
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Soloists ignited the modern dance movement and have been a source of its constant renewal. Because the lone dancer-choreographer has more flexibility than dance companies burdened with corporate ties, modern dance soloists are often able to tackle such broad social issues as freedom, personal space, individuality, and gender.

Author Biography

Claudia Gitelman is associate professor emerita at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon, co-edited with Randy Martin. Barbara Palfy was founding editor of Studies in Dance History and is an associate editor of other important dance journals.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Michio Ito's Shadow: Searching for the Transnational in Solo Dance	p. 7
Alone into the World: Reflections on Solos from 1919 by Vaslav Nijinsky and Mary Wigman	p. 31
The Solo That Isn't a Solo: Ann Carlsons Dances with Animals	p. 55
Aesthetics of Early Modernist Solo Dance in Central Europe	p. 73
Exotica and Ethereality: The Solo Art of Maud Allan	p. 119
Modernity and Nationalism in Solo Dance in Brazil: The Bailado of Eros Volúsia and the Performance of Luiz de Abreu	p. 141
Strange Heroes	p. 163
Anna Huber: A Conceptual Moment in Switzerland	p. 187
List of Contributors	p. 203
Index	p. 205
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