This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original essays.

Preface

viii

Part One THE FORERUNNERS

3

(40)

Introduction

3

(4)

Isadora Duncan

Excerpts From Her Writings

7

(4)

Loie Fuller

Light And The Dance

11

(10)

Ruth St. Denis

The Dance As Life Experience

21

(6)

Ted Shawn

Constants-What Constitutes A Work Of Art In The Dance

27

(6)

Mary Wigman

Stage Dance-Stage Dancer

33

(10)

Part Two THE FOUR PIONEERS

43

(42)

Introduction

43

(6)

Martha Graham

Graham 1937

49

(6)

Doris Humphrey

What A Dancer Thinks About

55

(10)

Charles Weidman

Random Remarks

65

(6)

Hanya Holm

Hanya Speaks

71

(14)

Part Three THE SECOND GENERATION

85

(52)

Introduction

85

(4)

Merce Cunningham

You Have To Love Dancing To Stick To It

89

(4)

Erick Hawkins

A Little House To Understand And Protect It

93

(4)

Jose Limon

On Dance

97

(10)

Anna Sokolow

The Rebel And The Bourgeois

107

(6)

Alwin Nikolais

Excerpts From "Nik: A Documentary"

113

(10)

Paul Taylor

Back to Basics

123

(8)

Alvin Ailey

It's About Dance

131

(6)

Part Four THE NEW REBELS

137

(62)

Introduction

137

(4)

Anna Halprin

The Process Is The Purpose

141

(8)

Judith Dunn

We Don't Talk About It. We Engage In It.

149

(8)

Yvonne Rainer

The Mind Is A Muscle

157

(10)

Pilobolus

Talking With Pilobolus

167

(10)

Trisha Brown

Douglas Dunn

Dialogue On Dance

177

(10)

Rod Rodgers

Don't Tell Me Who I Am

187

(6)

Twyla Tharp

Tank Dive

193

(6)

Part Five THE NEW VISION

199

(18)

Introduction

Don McDonagh

Mark Morris

A Passion for Music

203

(6)

Post-modernism? Excerpts from writings

209

(8)

Mary Fulkerson

Molissa Fenley

Bill T. Jones

David Gordon

Garth Fagan

Lucinda Childs

Eiko and Koma

Deborah Hay

Jowale Willa Jo Zollar

Selected Bibliography

217

(21)

Selected Videography

238

(3)

Index

241

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