This book looks at the life of Martha Hill, the prominent educator and founding director of three pivotal degree-granting college dance programs or departments and two summer festivals. The first-hand narratives provide in-depth perspectives on Hill's life and legacy. This book …
A biography of Martha Hill, whose vision and leadership helped to establish dance as a serious area of study at the university level and solidify its position as a legitimate art form.
A lively and intimate portrait of an unsung heroine in American dance.
"Integrating dance into U.S. social and political life, Rebekah Kowal's book demonstrates persuasively that mid-century dance initiatives contributed crucial innovations to modern dance while also vitally engaging with the tensions within the American body politic that would lea…
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
"Kurt Jooss was born shortly after the turn of this century, a time that ushered in the Age of Modernism. His achievement places him in the ranks of those leading artists who have permanently changed our cultural landscape. The significant stages of his career roughly correspond…
Kurt Jooss was born shortly after the turn of this century, a time that ushered in the Age ofModernism. His achievement places him in the ranks of those leading artists who havepermanently changed our cultural landscape. The significant stages of his career roughlycorrespond to …
Kurt Jooss was born shortly after the turn of this century, a time that ushered in the Age ofModernism. His achievement places him in the ranks of those leading artists who havepermanently changed our cultural landscape. The significant stages of his career roughlycorrespond to …