Doris Humphrey, an Artist First

Doris Humphrey, an Artist First
Author: Doris Humphrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Based on Humphrey's own writings, this book is an account of one of the great figures in modern dance and is rich dance history.

Doris Humphrey

Doris Humphrey
Author: Naomi Mindlin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2024-01-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113442289X

In honour of Doris Humphrey's centennial, which was celebrated worldwide in 1995, this issue explores her legacy to the world of dance and her place in history. The varied aspects of her work are covered including choreography, teaching approach, Labanotation scores, reconstruction/recreations, and composition. In order to convey a sense of movement into the next century, the articles are presented in "chronological" order, beginning with that of Ernestine Stodelle, who worked with Humphrey during the 1920's and ending with an examination of Mindlin's 1995 experience learning Humphrey's work from Stodelle.

New Dance

New Dance
Author: Doris Humphrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

"This collection of essays, lectures and notes reveals the inspiration behind the creation of the choreography of modern dance founder Doris Humphrey. The fundamentals of her composition: form, content and execution are expressed in her own spirited words, providing an intimate look at the creative process"--Dust jacket.

Days on Earth

Days on Earth
Author: Marcia B. Siegel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822313465

Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of protégé José Limon's dance company. Siegel's reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer.

Dance and the Lived Body

Dance and the Lived Body
Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1996-05-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822971702

In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan.

The Art of Making Dances

The Art of Making Dances
Author: Doris Humphrey
Publisher: New york : Grove Weidenfeld
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1959
Genre: Choreography
ISBN:

Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography.

Dance as a Theatre Art

Dance as a Theatre Art
Author: Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher: Dance Horizons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1992
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

A 'living history' of dance through the writings of its greatest innovators.

Dancing in the Blood

Dancing in the Blood
Author: Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107196221

The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.

The Modern Dance

The Modern Dance
Author: Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0819570931

CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.