附註:Includes index.
Thinking about Choreography : Confessions of a Choreography-Watcher ; Will Choreography Ever Be Respected as an Art Form? ; Idealists, Materialists, and the Thirty-Two Fouettes ; Why Doesn't the Prince Stay to Watch Aurora Dance? -- Out of the Past : The World of Eighteenth-Century Dance Comes Back to Life ; Staging the Classics Is Not So Simple as It Seems ; The Great World and the Small: Reflections on the Bournonville Festival ; Fokine: The Undervalued Revolutionary ; Legends in the Flesh ; Joffrey Brings Back its Faune ; Massine's Parade ; Nijinska's Les Noces ; Annabell Gamson as Isadora ; When Ballroom Dances Take to the Stage -- Some Contemporary Masters : The Glorious Unpredictability of George Balanchine ; By Any Name, It's Still an Imperial Ballet ; Balanchine's Schumann ; The View from the House Opposite: Some Aspects of Tudor ; Party Manners and Frederick Ashton ; A Month in the Country ; Robbins's New Ballet May Mean Many Things ; Some Personal Grumbles about Martha Graham ; A Heady Season ; Dances about Everything and Dances about Some Things ; Moments Called Now -- Ballet Makers : Grigorovich and the Bolshoi ; Talking to Myself about Eliot Feld ; Neumeier in Hamburg ; Kylian and Netherlands Dance Theatre -- The Ever-Modern : Paul Taylor: Surface and Substance ; Taylor's Rites ; Ailey's Flowers ; Judson Revivals: A Festival Benefit ; Yvonne Rainer: The Puritan as Hedonist ; Steve Paxton's Improvisations ; The Changing Faces of Twyla Tharp ; Trisha Brown's Minimalism ; New Dances That made Audiences Think ; Patterns and Spinning Are Only Part of It ; How Not to Get Trapped in a Choreographic Rut ; Some of Her Choreographicl Brainchildren Are Real Brats ; Dana Reitz Performs -- Images in Action : Parades and Changes ; Initiations and Transformations ; Monk's Inimitable Images ; Lazarus, a Multimedia Event ; Phoebe Neville's Enigmas ; Three Views of Orpheus ; Plotless Dance-Drama That Deals in Emotions ; Pina Bausch's Hippo ; Kei Takei ; Eiko and Koma
摘要:For over twenty years Jack Anderson has been writing about dance performances. His essays and reviews have appeared in daily newspapers, specialist monthlies, and critical quarterlies. For the last ten years he has been a dance critic for the New York Times. In Choreography Observed, Jack Anderson has selected writings that focus most directly on choreographers and choreography in order to illuminate the delights and problems of dance and to reveal the nature of this nonverbal but intensely expressive art form. His essays and reviews deal with individual choreographers from Bournonville, Petipa.
