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9780415103640

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415103640

  • ISBN10:

    0415103649

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-08-04
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Covering today's most important modern, ballet, contemporary and post-modern choreographers in Europe and North America, this unique guide is a valuable quick reference for students and critics, dancers and general readers in love with dance. Each entry includes a biographical section, a chronological list of works, a detailed bibliography and a critical essay. In entries on choreographers such as Richard Alston, Pina Bausch, Laurie Booth, Christopher Bruce, Jonathan Burrows, Michael Clarke, Merce Cunningham, Anna Theresa De Keersmaeker, Eiko and Koma, William Forsythe,Jiri Kylain, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp and other leading figures, readers can easily locate each choreographer's style and influence within the development of contemporary theatre dance, and swiftly discern the essential facts in his or her career.

Author Biography

Martha Bremser is a freelance editor and writer

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Editor's Note xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
1(12)
Deborah Jowitt
Richard Alston
13(5)
Lea Anderson
18(3)
Karole Armitage
21(4)
Pina Bausch
25(4)
Laurie Booth
29(5)
Matthew Bourne
34(3)
Trisha Brown
37(5)
Christopher Bruce
42(5)
Jonathan Burrows
47(4)
Rosemary Butcher
51(4)
Carolyn Carlson
55(3)
Lucinda Childs
58(5)
Michael Clark
63(5)
Robert Cohan
68(4)
Merce Cunningham
72(5)
Siobhan Davies
77(7)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
84(4)
Laura Dean
88(5)
Douglas Dunn
93(4)
Eiko and Koma
97(3)
Mats Ek
100(3)
Garth Fagan
103(3)
Eliot Feld
106(4)
William Forsythe
110(5)
Jean-Claude Gallotta
115(3)
David Gordon
118(5)
Bill T. Jones
123(5)
James Kudelka
128(5)
Jiri Kylian
133(6)
Daniel Larrieu
139(2)
Murray Louis
141(4)
Lar Lubovitch
145(5)
Maguy Marin
150(3)
Susan Marshall
153(3)
Bebe Miller
156(3)
Meredith Monk
159(5)
Mark Morris
164(5)
Graeme Murphy
169(4)
Lloyd Newson
173(3)
Robert North
176(4)
Kazuo Ohno
180(4)
Steve Paxton
184(5)
Stephen Petronio
189(3)
Pilobolus
192(4)
Ian Spink
196(5)
Elizabeth Streb
201(3)
Kei Takei
204(3)
Paul Taylor
207(5)
Glen Tetley
212(5)
Twyla Tharp
217

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