附註:美國加州大學柏克萊分校Dunbar H. Ogden教授(賴聲川老師博士論文指導教授)2006年捐贈.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-567) and index.
[Part] I : What is dance? --From Letters on dancing and ballets / Jean-Georges Noverre -- Dance as an art of imitation / Selma Jeanne Cohen -- Dance as a means of communication : from The dance / John Martin -- Metakinesis ; Extension of range ; Form and metakinesis : from The modern Dance / J. Martin -- Virtual powers ; The magic circle : from Feeling and form / Susanne K. Langer -- The idea of dance : from Aristotle to Mallarmé / André Levinson -- Philosophy of the dance / Paul Valéry -- Modes of symbolization ; Afterword, an illustration : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman -- Philosophers and the dance / David Michael Levin -- Why philosophy neglects the dance / Francis Sparshott.
[Part] II : The dance medium -- Ballets / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Le sacre du printemps / Jacques Rivière -- Balanchine's formalism / David Michael Levin -- Poet and dancer before Diaghilev / Frank Kermode -- Primitivism, modernism, and dance theory / Marshall Cohen -- Puppet theatre / Heinrich von Kleist.
[Part] III : Dance and the other arts -- From The art-work of the future / Richard Wagner -- Martha Graham's journey / Eric Bentley -- Music and action / Constant Lambert -- The purisim of Étienne Decroux / Eric Bentley -- from Music in London 1890-94 / Bernard Shaw -- Edgar Degas and the dance / Theodore Reff.
[Part] IV : Genre and style -- Ballet. Classic ballet : Aria of the aeriel / Lincoln Kirstein ; The classic ballet : from Tonight the ballet / Adrian Stokes ; The vertical : the fundamental principle of classical dance : from The book of exultation / A.K. Volinksy -- Letter to "The Times," July 6th, 1914 / Michel Fokine -- Modern dance. The dance of the future ; I see America dancing ; Richard Wagner / Isadora Duncan ; The sexual idiom : from Apology for dancing / Rayner Heppenstall ; Mind and medium in the modern dance / Katharine Gilbert ; My teacher Laban ; The philosophy of the modern dance / Mary Wigman ; Merce Cunningham and the politics of perception / Roger Copeland -- Post-modern dance. A quasi survey of some minimalist tendencies / Yvonne Rainer ; Running out of breath / Tom Johnson ; Notes on music and dance / Steve Reich -- Style. Problems of definition : from Next week, Swan Lake / Selma Jeanne Cohen ; The swan in Zurich / R.P. Blackmur ; There is nothing "national" about ballet style / Anna Kisselgoff ; Classic and romantic ballet : from Ballet alphabet / Lincoln Kirstein.
[Part] V : Language, notation, and identity -- Language and languages : from The principles of art / Robin G. Collingwood -- Art as language / Joseph Margolis -- Dance notation and choreology / Fernau Hall -- The role of notation : from Languages of art / Nelson Goodman -- Idealists, materialists, and the thirty-two fouettés / Jack Anderson.
[Part] VI : Dance criticism -- Fanny Elssler in "La Tempête" ; Revival of "La Sylphide" / Théophile Gautier -- The art and meaning of Isadora Duncan / André Levinson -- Anna Pavlowa, 1920 / Carl van Vechten -- Three sides of Agon ; A Balanchine masterpiece (Concerto barocco) / Edwin Denby -- Monumental Martha / Deborah Jowitt -- Momentous (The four temperaments) ; Joffrey jazz (Deuce coupe) / Arlene Croce.
[Part] VII -- The art of dancing : from The dance of life / Havelock Ellis -- The cosmic dance : from The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard -- From Ritual to art : from Ancient art and ritual / Jane Harrison -- The whirling dervishes : an emptiness filled with everything / Ross Wetzsteon -- Striptease / Roland Barthes -- Dance, photography, and the world's body / Roger Copeland -- The egalitarian waltz / Ruth Katz -- An antrhopologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku -- A possible grace : from Where she danced / Elizabeth Kendall.
摘要:A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholary work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society.
