Dancing Naturally: Nature, Neo-Classicism and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Dance

By Alexandra Carter

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Nature, Force and Variation; R.Fensham Constructing and Contesting the Natural in British Theatre Dance; A.Carter Ideas of Nature, the Natural and the Modern in Early Twentieth-CenturyDance Discourse; M.Huxley & R.Burt The Ancient Greeks and the 'Natural'; F.Macintosh From the Artificial to the Natural Body: Social Dancing in Britain 1900-1914; T.Buckland Dancing Based on Natural Movement; M.A.Johnstone & M.Atkinson Undressing and Dressing Up: Natural Movement's Life in Costume; R.Fensham Nature Moving Naturally in Succession: An Exploration of Doris Humphrey's Water Study; L.Main Tensing and Relaxing Naturally: Systematic Approaches to Training the Body; S.Foster 'Female Nature', Body Culture and Plastique; K.Vedel Tethering the Flow: Dialogues between Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia; A.Card Mining Anatomy: Moving Naturally; L.Worth Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349326216
• ISBN13: 9781349326211
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"