Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology
A Library of America Special Publication
$111.32
- Hardcover
677 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2018
Summary
From ballet and Balanchine to tap and hip-hop, two centuries of rich and eloquent writing about the beauty and magic of American dance.From ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing, a treasury of unforgettable writing about the beauty and magic of American dance.Fromthe beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native American rituals and African American improvisations to create somethi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535846 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598535846 |
| Author: | Mindy Aloff, Robert Gottlieb |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 677 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 826g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 133mm |
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“truly stellar pieces… illuminating and unexpected.” – NPR.org
“Illuminating and unexpected … truly stellar.” — NPR.org
About The Author
Mindy Aloff
Mindy Aloff has taught dance criticism and history at Barnard College and serves as editor of the Dance Critics Association News and consultant to The George Balanchine Foundation. She is the author of Dance Anecdotes- Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance (2006) and Hippo in a Tutu- Dancing in Disney Animation (2008). She edited Agnes de Mille’s Leaps in the Dark- Art and the World (2011). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, and many other periodicals and anthologies.
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