Dance, Modernism, and Modernity by Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley - 9781138313040

Taylor & Francis

Dance, Modernism, and ModernityAuthor(s): Ramsay Burt, Michael Huxley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138313040, 978-1138313040\nSynopsis\nThis collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.\n\nBurt 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 HDoubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts .