A premiere choreographer's compelling argument for the agency of the body in creative processes.
Seven Statements of Belief: Jos? Lim?n, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.
Seven statements of belief by Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, and Paul Taylor.
Annotation CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.
The modern dance: seven statements of belief
In this book choreographers provide their definitions and interpretations of modern dance based on their own experience.
This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved dance to the edges of society. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a confrontational view of American dem…