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Tap Roots
Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing. Section One covers primary influences such as Irish step dancing, English clog dancing and African dancing. Section Two covers theatrical influences (early theatrical developments, "Daddy" Rice, the Virginia Minstrels) and Section Three covers various other influences (Native American, German and Shaker). Also included are accounts of the people present at tap's inception and how various styles of dance were mixed to create a new art form.
The Dance Library
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Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H’Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors e...
Of the Diagram
The second in the Slought Books Contemporary Artists Series, this book joins new and retrospective work by Marjorie Welish with contributions by Kenneth Baker, Norma Cole, Carla Harryman, Gans & Jelacic Architecture and Design, Olivier Gourvil, Ron Janssen, Joseph Masheck, Bob Perelman, Jean-Michel Rabate, Frances Richard, Osvaldo Romberg, Keith Tuma, Chris Tysh, and Thomas Zummer. In association with the Spring 2002 Slought Foundation symposium on the artist."Let's dig, therefore: art is excavation." --Jean-Michel Rabate "Can?t have difference without the other thing... Difference in repetition." --Norma Cole "Where is the true red, yellow or blue?" -- Marjorie Welish
