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No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century
This book chronicles one hundred years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern, and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume is magisterial in scope, encompassing the history of theatrical dance from 1900 through 2000. Beginning with turn-of-the-century dancer-choreographers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine, and a bit later Vaslav Nijinsky, and proceeding through the profusion of dance styles performed today, the book provides an unparalleled view of dance in performance as it changed and grew in the twentieth century. Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick set dance in broader cultural and historical contexts, examine specific dance works, and explore the contributions of outstanding choreographers, performers, visual artists, impresarios, composers, critics, and other figures. They discuss the breakaway barefoot dance of the early 1900s and demonstrate its links with later forms and styles. With unusual detail, fascinating illustrations, and wide-ranging insights, this book is an indispensable guide to the transformations in the dance scene of the twentieth century.
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Dancing across the page
An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing Across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contemporary dance making, improvisation and dance education, Karen Barbour explores a diversity of themes, including power, activism, and cultural, gendered and personal identity. An intimate yet rigorous investigation of creativity in dance, Dancing Across the Page emphasizes embodied knowledge and imagination as a basis for creative action in the world.
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Multiplicity, embodiment and the contemporary dancer : moving identities
\"In recent years, the practice of contemporary dancers has altered significantly in the transition from canonical choreographic vocabularies to a proliferation of choreographic signatures within mainstream and independent dance. Dancers are often required to collaborate creatively on the formation of choreographic material, thus engaging conceptually with emerging cultural paradigms. This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of contemporary dance culture.A key insight of this book is that the dancer's signature way of being is a 'moving identity', which incorporates the past dance experience, anatomical structures and conditioned human movement of the dancer as a self-in-process. The moving identity is the movement signature that the dancer forms throughout a career path\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Synergistic Application of Modern Dance Education and Creation in Cross-Cultural Perspective
In the context of globalization, modern dance education urgently needs to integrate cross-cultural perspectives and technological tools to enhance teaching and creative efficiency. In this study, a system framework based on the synergistic application of cross-cultural dance and creation is designed with motion capture technology and neural fusion shape technology as the core. By constructing a dance movement choreography assistance system, combining quaternion-based motion retrieval, multi-level B-spline motion path editing algorithms, and virtual character models generated by the neural fusion shape technology, the efficient synthesis of dance movements and cross-cultural resource integration are realized. The results showed that the students in the experimental group using the system were significantly better than the traditional teaching group in terms of dance skills (movement fluency, body posture, rhythmic accuracy) and physical qualities (comprehensive balance, sensitive coordination) (P<0.05), and the total performance was improved by 6.50% (79.07±2.35 in the experimental group and 74.17±2.63 in the control group). The establishment of the cross-cultural teaching resource library and the automatic curriculum generation algorithm effectively supported the curriculum design under the multicultural perspective. This study provides theoretical and practical basis for technological innovation and cross-cultural integration in modern dance education.
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Bodies of Thought
This book features a generation of award-winning, innovative Australian choreographers with international reputations and legacies of influence. Focusing on a work by each artist, with an interview and an essay, this book offers insights into the creation of remarkable works, at a time when Australian dance is enjoying international acclaim.
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Choreographing Proximity and Difference: Vassos Kanellos's Performance of Greekness as an Embodied Negotiation with Western Dance Modernity
Countering the historiographic under-representation of Greek modern dance, this article focuses on early twentieth-century dance artist Vassos Kanellos. Combining Western/European choreographic inputs and local, often traditional, elements, Kanellos rearticulated the inscription of Greek dance in historical time—beyond a sole focus on antiquity—and anchored it in a nationally marked space and in the specificity of a posited Greek “race.” Informed by new modernist studies, this article reads Kanellos's practice as a reflection of the country's process of constructing a hegemonic national identity against a background in which Greece constituted both Europe's subaltern periphery and the foundation of its genealogical narrative.
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