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9780760345993 | Voyageur Pr, December 9, 2014, cover price $45.00
Examines the work of choreographer Twyla Tharp, tracing her rise from Greenwich Village to the Broadway stage and offering insight into how her efforts to remove the barriers between performance forms served to reinvigorate dance.
Hardcover:
9780312232948 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 7, 2006), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Examines the work of choreographer Twyla Tharp, tracing her rise from Greenwich Village to the Broadway stage and offering insight into how her efforts to remove the barriers between performance forms served to reinvigorate dance.
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9781429908771 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $12.99
Product Description: Martha Hill (1900â1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her 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...read more
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9780819568991 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 21, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Martha Hill (1900â1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance.
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9780773451223 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: 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.
A forty-fifth anniversary tribute to the celebrated dance company traces its evolution from a small group of young traveling dancers to one of the world's most prestigious companies, in a portrait complemented by candid photography, behind-the-scenes information, and discussions with top dancers and choreographers. 17,500 first printing.
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9781584793649 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, November 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A forty-fifth anniversary tribute to the celebrated dance company traces its evolution from a small group of young traveling dancers to one of the world's most prestigious companies, in a portrait complemented by candid photography, behind-the-scenes information, and discussions with top dancers and choreographers.
Traces the evolution of modern dance, noting the contributions of such performers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Ted Shawn while revealing the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and how it challenged conventional roles. Simultaneous. (Performing Arts)
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9780807826980 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of modern dance, noting the contributions of such performers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Ted Shawn while revealing the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and how it challenged conventional roles.
Paperback:
9780807853672 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of modern dance, noting the contributions of such performers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Ted Shawn while revealing the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and how it challenged conventional roles.
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9780871272119 | 2 sub edition (Princeton Book Co Pub, January 1, 2000), cover price $27.95
9780916622275 | Reprint edition (Princeton Book Co Pub, January 1, 1983), cover price $19.95
Photographs and text chronicle Merce Cunningham's fifty-year career and his contributions to modern dance
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9780893817671 | 1 ed edition (Aperture, June 1, 1997), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Photographs and text chronicle Merce Cunningham's fifty-year career and his contributions to modern dance
Product Description: For nearly sixty years choreographer Merce Cunningham has challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative and by refusing to unify movement with sound and decor. After initial objections to his style, however, this controversial figureâwho has collaborated with avant-garde musicians John Cage, Earle Brown, and David Tudor and artists Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Marcel Duchampâis now revered as one of the most visionary artists of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780306808777 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: For nearly sixty years choreographer Merce Cunningham has challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative and by refusing to unify movement with sound and decor.
Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Hardcover:
9783718658770, titled "You Call Me Louis, Not Mr Horst" | Routledge, May 1, 1997, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.
Paperback:
9783718658879 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.
Product Description: In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822939634 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary.
Paperback:
9780822956174 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary.
Hardcover:
9783718657360 | Vhs edition (Routledge, April 1, 1995), cover price $39.95
9783718657377 | Vhs edition (Routledge, April 1, 1995), cover price $45.95
9783718655571 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $105.00
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9783718653652 | Harwood Academic Pub, June 1, 1994, cover price N/A
Paperback:
9783718655588 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $45.95
Product Description: For nearly sixty years choreographer Merce Cunningham has challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative and by refusing to unify movement with sound and decor. After initial objections to his style, however, this controversial figureâwho has collaborated with avant-garde musicians John Cage, Earle Brown, and David Tudor and artists Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Marcel Duchampâis now revered as one of the most visionary artists of the century...read more
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9781556521522 | A Cappella Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: For nearly sixty years choreographer Merce Cunningham has challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative and by refusing to unify movement with sound and decor.
Hardcover:
9780822312260 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $47.95
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9780883145258 | Amer Alliance for Health Physical, June 1, 1992, cover price $8.00
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9780525243250 | E P Dutton, August 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Features a comprehensive history of dance in the United States and provides a behind-the scenes look at dance companies and choreographers.
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9780916622909 | Reprint edition (Dance Horizons, January 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses the theoretical foundations of modern dance, considers the nature of movement, form and composition, and explains how dances are made
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9780822306832 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $54.95
Paperback:
9780520051737 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1984), cover price $15.95
Traces the development of the Bennington School of Dance during the 1930s, and describes the influence of its teachers, students, and choreographers on modern dance
Hardcover:
9780816185283 | G K Hall, January 1, 1982, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the Bennington School of Dance during the 1930s, and describes the influence of its teachers, students, and choreographers on modern dance
9780816185283 | G K Hall, January 1, 1982, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the Bennington School of Dance during the 1930s, and describes the influence of its teachers, students, and choreographers on modern dance
Hardcover:
9780394400297 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1979, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the course of modern dance in America, from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the high art of Martha Graham, focusing on the life and career of Ruth St.
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