An edition of Dance Anecdotes
(2006)
Dance anecdotes
stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance
by Mindy Aloff
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Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance
May 2, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Dance anecdotes: stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance
2006, Oxford University Press
in English
0195054113 9780195054118
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Table of Contents
N.B (from Author).: This is a highly incomplete example of how the contents could be written for each category. All the categories, however, are represented here in order: Towering figures
Marie Taglioni
(Pierre Lacotte, August Bournonville, Hans Christian Andersen, Tamara Karsavina, Tamara Geva, Joseph Cornell, Marie Taglioni)
Anna Pavlova
(Muriel Stuart, A.H. Franks, Diwan Chamanlall, Hubert Storitts, Alicia Markova
Sol Hurok, Anna Pavlova)
Vaslav Nijinsky
(Cyril Beaumont, Jean Cocteau, Marie Rambert, Henry Taylor Parker, Ninette de Valois
Joan Acocella, Vaslav Nijinsky)
Isadora Duncan
(Isadora Duncan, Erick Hawkins, Gorgon Craig, Irma Duncan, Max Eastman
Robert Benchley, Fredrika Blair, H.T. Parker, Arlene Croce)
Martha Graham
(Dorothy Bird, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Francis Mason, Beate Gordon, Tony Randall, David Zellmer)
Margot Fonteyn
(Alastair Macaulay, Pauline Koner, Maxim Gershunoff, Martha Graham, David Vaughan, Lynn Seymour, Valda Setterfield, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert A. Gottlieb
Keith Money, Meredith Daneman, Joy Williams Brown)
Frederick Ashton
(Frederick Ashton with Dick Cavett)
George Balanchine
(Tamara Geva, Mikhail Mikhailov, Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine, Moira Shearer, Aaron Copland, Edwin Denby, Yvonne Mounsey, Vera Krasovskaya, Bernard Taper, Robert A. Gottlieb, Maya Plisetskaya, Karin von Aroldingen, Susan Pilarre)
Of steps and their authorship
(Ekaterina Vazem on La Bayadre, Natalia Makarova on the dying swan, David Daniel on Suzanne Farrell and Balanchine's Nutcracker, Julian Mates on the hornpipe
Michael Powell on Moira Shearer, Sally Banes on the origins of hip-hop)
Music makes me
(Fred Astaire on George Gershwin, Eudora Welty, John Cranko, Ellen Pearlman
On Tibetan buddhist monks, Carl Carmer on dancing Alabama, A.P. Natarova on
Riccardo Drigo, Ruth St. Denis on music visualization, Josef Kschesinsky on Lev Ivanov
Parmenia Migel on Manuel da Falla, Charles Dickens on "La Carmagnole," Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan, Federico Garca Lorca, George Balanchine on Igor Stravinsky)
The rehearsal room
(Antony Tudor, Carolyn Adams on Paul Taylor, Benjamin Bowman on Jerome Robbins, Tony Stevens on Bob Fosse, Savion Glover, Ralph Lemon, Jesse McKinley on Harvey Fierstein, Lincoln Kirstein on George Balanchine, Dave Barry [attributed])
Coaches and teachers
(Lillian B. Lawler on the Greek gods, Savion glover on the tap tradition, Jean Georges Noverre on ballet positions, A.Y. Golovachova-Panaeva on Charles Didelot
Lillian Moore on dancing on Montesquieu in North America, Maria Tallchief on Caroline Kennedy, Mary Fanton Roberts on Isadora Duncan, Lynn Seymour on Margot Fonteyn, George Jackson on Katherine Dunham, Charles dickens, Mamie Dickens on her father, Timofei Alexevevich Stukolkin on Fanny Elssler, Andre Glevsky on Nicolas Legat, Gennady Albert on Alexander Pushkin, Paul Taylor on Antony Tudor, Deborah Jowitt on Bella Lewitzky, Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey on one another, James Cagney on Anna Pavlova, Bill T Jones on his high school mentor, Martin Gottfried on Marilyn Monroe and Gwen Verdon
Robert Greskovic on Suzanne Farrell)
Hands and things that can fill them
(Natalia Makarova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Xenia Narina, Shirley Temple, Paul Taylor, Bettie de Jong)
Balletomania and other thrills
(A.H. Franks, Théophile Gautier, King Ludwig I, Ruthanna Boris, Lillian Moore, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Carl van Vechten)
Inspiration
(Tommy Tune, George Balanchine, Federico Garcia Lorca, Donald McKayle
E. Louis Backman, Eudora Welty, Lynn Fauley Emery, Ruby Keeler, Ruth St. Denis, Diwan Chamanlall, Natalia Makarova, Lynn Seymour
Ron Cunningham, Gelsey Kirkland)
Seductions attempted, surmised, and completed
(Geoffrey Gorer, Guglielmo Ebreo, Agnes de Mille, Meredith Daneman, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Giacomo Casanova)
Critical lines
Turning points
From stage to page
Fauna
Scandals
Touring
The theaters
Costumes, footgear, and hair do's and don'ts
Make-up
Conductors
Dancing and related professions
Dancing and the movies
Injuries, maladies, misfortunes, and cures
On partnering and partnerships
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
Stagecraft.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
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