Download or read book Dance We Must written by Ted Shawn and published by Haskell House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1940 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peabody lectures of 1938 delivered at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. Reprint of the original edition without illustrations. First published in Great Britain by Dennis Dobson in 1946.

Download or read book Ted Shawn written by Paul A. Scolieri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his prot�g�s Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism.

Download or read book Ruth St Denis Ted Shawn and Their Denishawn Dancers in the Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1927* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Professional Appearances of Ruth St Denis Ted Shawn written by Christena L. Schlundt and published by New York : New York Public Library. This book was released on 1962 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruth St Denis Ted Shawn and Their Denishawn Dancers written by and published by . This book was released on 1926* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Denishawn Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs with captions depict Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denison Dancers on their tour through India, January-April 1926. Includes quotes from reviews in the local press.

Download or read book After the Dance written by Susan Brady and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruth St Denis with Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers written by Ruth St. Denis and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruth St Denis with Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers written by and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Souvenir Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1920* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruth St Denis written by Suzanne Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.

Download or read book Barton Mumaw Dancer written by Jane Sherman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of American modern dance and gay life in the 1930s.

Download or read book Denishawn written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Denishawn the Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn School of Dancing and Its Related Arts Summer 1924 written by Denishawn School of Dancing and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ted Shawn Father of American Dance written by Walter Terry and published by New York : Dial Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first revealing, in-depth, full-length biography of the most important male figure in American dance: Ted Shawn (1891-1972), dancer, choreographer, teacher (of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman), innovator, partner with his wife Ruth St. Denis in the famed Denishawn Company, founder of Jacob's Pillow. Using exclusive materials (oral, written, photographic), America's most important dance critic explores Shawn's enormous influence on the entire spectrum of the dance. It was Ted Shawn who brought the concept of virility to male dancing in America and made it thereby (especially through his later all-male dance groups) both exciting as theater and respectable as a career."--Book jacket.

Download or read book The People Have Never Stopped Dancing written by Jacqueline Shea Murphy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.

Download or read book Denishawn written by Denishawn School of Dancing and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: