Dance History: An Introduction

by Adshead-Lansdale,Janet

• ISBN13: 9780415090308
• ISBN10: 041509030X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

best. "Dance History" will be an essential purchase for all students of dance.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Part I A rationale and methodology for dance history
Historical perspectives in the study of dance	3	(15)
June Layson
Dance history source materials	18	(14)
June Layson
The dance history literature: a reader's guide	32	(13)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Part II Historical studies of dance in its traditional, social and theatrical contexts
Traditional dance: English ceremonial and social forms	45	(14)
Theresa Buckland
Traditional dance in West Africa	59	(22)
Georgiana Gore
Regional evidence for social dance with particular reference to a Yorkshire spa town, Harrogate, UK	81	(17)
Patricia Mitchinson
Ballets lost and found: restoring the twentieth-century repertoire	98	(19)
Kenneth Archer
Millicent Hodson
Enrico Cecchetti: the influence of tradition	117	(15)
Giannandrea Poesio
Rambert Dance Company Archive, London, UK	132	(19)
Jane Pritchard
European early modern dance	151	(18)
Michael Huxley
Expression and expressionism in American modern dance	169	(13)
Deborah Jowitt
Beyond expressionism: Merce Cunningham's critique of `the natural'	182	(16)
Roger Copeland
Re-tracing our steps: the possibilities for feminist dance histories	198	(21)
Carol Brown
Part III Studying and writing dance history
Pathways to studying dance history	219	(12)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Writing dance history	231	(21)
June Layson
Appendix A: Dance history texts annotated	252	(22)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Appendix B: Selected list of reference texts	274	(10)
Judith Chapman
Appendix C: Selected list of periodicals	284
Judith Chapman