Modern Dance in France (1920-1970): An Adventure

by Robinson,Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9789057020155
• ISBN10: 9057020157
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

It was indeed an adventure for those pioneers in France who struggled for the recognition of the new-born dance of the twentieth century - from the free dance of Isadora Duncan, through the absolute dance of Mary Wigman, to the modern dance of Martha Graham. Jacqueline Robinson has lived at the heart of this adventure, sharing the aspirations of a whole generation who often suffered from the lack of understanding of an establishment more inclined towards classical ballet. From the breaking of the soil in the twenties, to the flowering in the sixties, here is a chronicle of the changing landscape of French dance. Here is the story of those men and women, ploughmen and poets, rebels and visionaries - the recollection of those events that made it possible for dance as an art form in Western countries to rise again as a fundamental expression of the human spirit.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series	xv	(2)
Acknowledgements	xvii	(1)
List of plates	xviii	(3)
Exergue	xxi	(2)
Foreword	xxiii	(2)
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Prelude: Indelible Ephemera	xxv
Dominique Dupuy
INTRODUCTION	1	(18)
An Epic	1	(1)
The Sense of the Phylum	1	(1)
Modern Dance in the Birth-Place of Classical Dance	2	(1)
Virginity and Creation	3	(1)
Terminology	4	(1)
From Yesterday to Today	5	(2)
Contemporary Opinions	7	(3)
Fertility, Frivolity and Digressions	10	(2)
Dance to Serve Man? Man to Serve Dance?	12	(1)
Keys to Reading	13	(6)
PART I 1920-1930: THE GROUND-BREAKING YEARS	19	(82)
Chronology	19	(4)
Dance in the Roaring Twenties	23	(1)
The Influence of the Ballets Russes (and Waslaw Nijinsky)	24	(1)
Modern Dance is First and Foremost `Individual'	25	(1)
Isadora, the Symbol	26	(1)
In the Wake of Isadora	27	(2)
The Body Rehabilitated	29	(1)
Harmonic Gymnastics	30	(2)
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze	32	(3)
Rudolf von Laban	35	(1)
Other Influences	36	(4)
The Plastic Arts	40	(2)
Exoticism	42	(2)
Venues for the New Dance	44	(1)
A Similar Volapuk of Movements?	44	(2)
THE ACTORS	46	(1)
INSTITUTIONS	47	(2)
The Ballets Suedois 1920-1924	47	(2)
THE DUNCAN LINE	49	(12)
Raymond Duncan	50	(3)
Elisabeth Duncan	53	(1)
Irma Duncan	54	(1)
Lisa Duncan	55	(5)
Odile Pyros
Ellen Tels-Rabanek	60	(1)
Postscript on the Legacy of Isadora	61	(1)
Madeleine Lytton
THE LABAN AND DALCROZE LINES	61	(6)
Dussia Bereska	61	(2)
Marie-Louise van Veen	63	(1)
Jacqueline Chaumont	64	(2)
Marie Kummer	66	(1)
THE INDEPENDENT ONES	67	(12)
Georges Pomies	67	(2)
Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff	69	(7)
Denise Blanc-Raillard
Helene Vanel and Lois Hutton	76	(1)
Yvonne Redgis	77	(1)
Paul Swan	77	(1)
Charlotte Bara	78	(1)
Yvonne Serac	78	(1)
Isabel de Etchessary	78	(1)
THE EDUCATORS	79	(8)
Francois Malkowski	79	(2)
Renee Odic Kintzel	81	(3)
Irene Popard	84	(3)
THE ORIENTALS	87	(10)
Jeanne Ronsay	87	(3)
Nyota Inyoka	90	(3)
Djemil Anik	93	(1)
Uday Shankar	94	(1)
Raden Mas Jodjana	95	(2)
CONCLUSION	97	(4)
PART II 1930-1939: THE TILLING YEARS	101	(72)
Chronology	101	(4)
Dance: from the Ground-Breaking to the Ploughing of the Land	105	(1)
Mary Wigman	106	(3)
Mary Wigman in Paris in 1931	109	(2)
The Wave from Central Europe	111	(3)
Tours and Venues	114	(1)
A Diversity of Tendencies	115	(2)
THE ACTORS	117	(1)
INSTITUTIONS	118	(8)
The Archives Internationales de la Danse	118	(8)
THE LABAN AND WIGMAN LINES	126	(19)
Jean Weidt	127	(6)
Dominique Dupuy
Heinz Finkel	133	(2)
Ludolf Schild	135	(5)
Lise Brunel
Mila Cirul	140	(3)
Julia Marcus	143	(1)
Doryta Brown	144	(1)
THE DALCROZE AND HELLERAU-LAXENBURG LINE	145	(6)
Anita Wiskeman	146	(2)
Florence Poudru
Helene Carlut	148	(3)
Florence Poudru
Doris Halphen, Maian Pontan and the Hellerau-Laxenburg School	151	(1)
DEFECTORS FROM CLASSICAL DANCE	151	(9)
Jean Serry	152	(3)
Janine Solane	155	(5)
THE INDEPENDENT ONES	160	(5)
Marguerite Bougai	160	(4)
Tony Gregory	164	(1)
Freddy Wittop	165	(1)
Josette and Renee Foatelli	165	(1)
THE EDUCATORS	165	(4)
Fee Helles	166	(1)
Denise Coutier
Liliane Arlen and Viennese Dance	167	(2)
CONCLUSION	169	(4)
PART III 1945-1960: THE SOWING YEARS	173	(138)
Chronology	173	(6)
The Return to Peace	179	(3)
New Landscapes	182	(1)
Our Own `Modern' Dancers	183	(1)
Grafts	183	(1)
Turning Towards the Roots	183	(1)
Trends of `Culture for the Masses'	184	(1)
Jacques Copeau and his Heritage	185	(2)
Travail et Culture (T.E.C.)	187	(2)
Educational par le jeu dramatique (E.P.J.D.)	189	(1)
Spiritual Awakening	190	(1)
Scouts	191	(1)
Expression through the Body	191	(2)
Institutions that Foster Dance	193	(2)
The Birth of the Body	195	(3)
THE ACTORS	198	(1)
INSTITUTIONS	199	(9)
Jean Dorcy and Danse et Culture	199	(4)
Dinah Maggie and Association Francaise de Recherches Choregraphiques (A.F.R.E.C.) and the Theatre d'Essai de la Danse	203	(5)
FRENCH DANCERS OF EUROPEAN DESCENT	208	(25)
Anne Gardon	208	(3)
Genevieve Mallarme	211	(1)
Raymonde Lombardin	212	(5)
Charles Antonetti	217	(1)
Jacqueline Levant	218	(1)
Suzanne Remon	219	(1)
Claude Stephane	219	(1)
Francoise and Dominique Dupuy and The Ballets Modernes de Paris	220	(3)
THE GRAFTS	233	(42)
Jerome Andrews	233	(7)
Delphine Rybinski
Jacqueline Robinson	240	(10)
Genevieve Piguet
Laura Sheleen	250	(7)
Karin Waehner	257	(9)
Muriel Topaz	266	(1)
Paul d'Arnot	267	(2)
Edith Allard	269	(1)
Katherine Henry d'Epinoy	270	(3)
Gilberto Motta	273	(1)
Regine Drengwicz	274	(1)
IN THE LINE OF JANINE SOLANE	275	(5)
Rose-Marie Paillet	275	(2)
Denise Blanc-Raillard	277	(1)
Marie-France Babillot	278	(2)
Titane Saint-Hubert	280	(1)
THE INDEPENDENT ONES	280	(8)
Olga Stens	280	(4)
Genevieve Piguet	284	(2)
Frederique Franchini	286	(1)
Antoinette Guedy	287	(1)
Roger Ribes	287	(1)
THE EDUCATORS	288	(10)
Hilde Peerbohm	288	(3)
Marie-Madeleine Cosnard
Paul
Annelise Galland
Monique Golhen
Regine Le Bourva
Yvonne Berge	291	(2)
Phyllis Drayson	293	(1)
Mireille Fromantel	294	(1)
Anne-Marie Debatte	295	(3)
FROM DRAMA AND MIME	298	(7)
Bella Reine	298	(2)
Etienne Decroux	300	(4)
Jacques Lecoq	304	(1)
Marcel Marceau	305	(1)
IN THE DUNCAN LINE	305	(1)
Madeleine Lytton	305	(1)
Odile Hamelin-Pyros	306	(1)
CONCLUSION	306	(5)
PART IV 1960-1970: THE FLOWERING YEARS	311	(90)
Chronology	311	(4)
Social Changes	315	(1)
The Rights of the Body	316	(1)
The Institutionalization of Dance	317	(2)
Festivals	319	(1)
Companies and Schools	320	(3)
A Digression on Folklore	323	(1)
Competitions	324	(1)
The `Militants'	324	(1)
Everything Changes	325	(1)
American Influences	326	(1)
The Wave from Latin America	327	(1)
Multiplication	328	(1)
Youth and Vulnerability	329	(1)
THE ACTORS	330	(1)
INSTITUTIONS	331	(15)
The Introduction of Dance into Parisian Universities	331	(4)
Mireille Arguel
The Growing Presence of Modern Dance in Physical Training Centres	335	(6)
Mireille Arguel
The Ballet Theatre Contemporain	341	(2)
The Theatre Francais de la Danse	343	(1)
The Theatre des Nations	343	(1)
The Chateauvallon Festival	344	(1)
Art, Recherche, Confrontation at the Museum of Modern Art	345	(1)
The Bagnolet Competition: Ballet pour Demain	346	(1)
Nathalie Collantes
FRENCH DANCERS, NOMADIC AND SEDENTARY	346	(15)
Francoise Saint-Thibault	346	(2)
Noelle Janoli	348	(1)
Francoise Julliot de la Morandiere	348	(1)
Claudine Allegra	349	(1)
Isabelle Mirova	350	(2)
Claude Decaillot	352	(2)
Dora Feilane	354	(1)
Aline Roux	354	(1)
Annick Maucouvert	355	(3)
Suzon Holzer	358	(1)
Renate Pook	359	(1)
Poumi Lescaut	360	(1)
Anne-Marie Reynaud	361	(1)
THE SCHOLARS	361	(17)
Michele Nadal	361	(2)
Francine Lancelot	363	(3)
Muriel Jaer	366	(1)
Claude Pujade-Renaud	367	(2)
Jacqueline Challet-Haas	369	(2)
Mireille Arguel	371	(2)
Alberte Raynaud	373	(2)
Pinok and Matho	375	(3)
THE EDUCATORS	378	(6)
Denise Coutier and `Danse Ma Joie' (D.M.J.)	379	(1)
Jean Bouffort	380	(1)
Francoise Chantraine	381	(1)
Sylvie Deluz	382	(1)
The `Science of the Body'	383	(1)
THE GRAFT FROM LATIN AMERICA	384	(11)
Arlet Bon	385	(2)
Sara Pardo	387	(1)
Graziella Martinez	388	(3)
Juan Carlos Bellini	391	(1)
Mara Dajanova	391	(1)
Noemie Lapzeson	391	(1)
Paulina Ossona	392	(1)
Paulina Oca	392	(1)
Diana Obedman	393	(1)
Gladys Aleman	393	(1)
Sonia Sanoja	394	(1)
Guillermo Palomares	394	(1)
JAZZ AND AFRICAN DANCE: ANOTHER TURNING TOWARDS ROOTS	395	(6)
Ingeborg Liptay	395	(1)
Christiane de Rougemont	396	(5)
EPILOGUE	401	(32)
Appendices	409	(18)
The Specialized Press and Writers about Dance	409	(5)
A Few Authors who Wrote about Dance	414	(5)
Period Pieces: A Few Howlers	419	(8)
Bibliography	427	(6)
Other books	432	(1)
Jacqueline Robinson
Index	433