Readings

Texts

Jonas, Gerald. Dancing. New York: Harry Abrams, 1992.

Foulkes, Julia L. Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Additional Readings

Brown, Carol. "Re-tracing Our Steps: The Possibilities for Feminist Dance Histories." In Dance History: An Introduction. Edited by Janet Adshead-Lansdale and June Layson. Routledge, 1983, pp. 198-216.

Daly, Ann. "The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers." TDR 31, 1 (1987).

Deborah, Jowitt. "A Private View of Dance Criticism." In The Dance Has Many Faces. Edited by Walter Sorell. 3rd revised ed. 1992, pp. 202-209.

DeFrantz, Thomas. "Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance." In Moving Ideologies. Edited by Gay Morris. Routledge, 1996, pp. 106-121.

Dempster, Elizabeth. "Women Writing The Body: Let's Watch a Little How She Dances." In Dance Studies Reader. Routledge, pp. 223-229.

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. "Barefoot and Hot, Sneakered and Cool: Africanist Subtexts in Modern and Postmodern Dance." In Digging the Africanist Presence: Dance and Other Contexts. Greenwood, 1996, pp. 47-58.

Graham, Martha. "I am a Dancer." In Dance Studies Reader. Routledge, pp. 66-71.

Huenemann, Lynn. "Northern Plains Dance." In Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions. Edited by Charlotte Heth. Smithsonian Institution/Starwood, 1993, pp. 125-147.

Humphrey, Doris. "An Introduction to Choreography." In The Art of Making Dances. Grove Press, New York, pp. 15-41.

Kealiinohomoku, Joann. "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance." In What Is Dance?, by Cohen and Copeland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 533-549.

Malone, Jacqui. "'Keep to the Rhythm and You'll Keep To Life': Meaning and Style in African American Vernacular Dance." In Dance Studies Reader. Routledge, pp. 230-235.

Myers, Gerald. " African Americans and the Modern Dance Aesthetic." American Dance Festival.

Nash, Joe. "The Mission of Black Modern Dance." American Dance Festival.

Novak, Cynthia. "Ballet, Gender and Cultural Politics." In Dance, Gender and Culture. Edited by Helen Thomas. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Redfern, Betty "What is Art." In Dance Studies Reader. Routledge, pp. 125-134.

Stuckey, P. Sterling. "Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance." In Dancing Many Drums. Edited by DeFrantz. U Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Thompson, Robert Farris. "Dance and Culture, An Aesthetic of the Cool: West Africa Dance." African Forum 2, 2 (Fall 1996): 85-102.

Ward, Andrew H. "Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance." In Dance, Sex, and Gender. Edited by Helen Thomas. St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp. 16-33.

"An Introduction to Choreography." In The Art of Making Dances, by Doris Humphrey. New York: Grove Press, pp. 15-41.

Viewings
DANCING
Produced by Thirteen/WNET in association with RM Arts and BBC-TV. Created by Rhoda Grauer, executive producer. Producers: Geoff Dunlop and Jane Alexander, Screenlife Limited. Director: not credited on frame. Director, performance programs: Jac Venza. Director of photography: Mike Coles. Telescript: Gerald Jonas and Rhoda Grauer. Story: Rhoda Grauer. Host/narrator: Raoul Trujillo.

REVELATIONS - 1962
Telecast on Lamp unto my feet, March 4, 1962, WCBS-TV, New York. Produced by Pamela Ilott. Directed by Martin Carr. Choreography: Alvin Ailey. Music: traditional, sung by Brother John Sellers and the Howard Roberts Chorale. Sets: Jac Venza. Danced by Alvin Ailey, James Truitte, Minnie Marshall, Thelma Hill, and artists of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.

REVELATIONS - 1986
Made-for-television performance co-produced by Danmarks Radio/ZDF/RM Arts in association with ORF. Produced and directed by Thomas Grimm. Licensed worldwide by NVC Arts International. Distributed as a videotape by Home Vision, a Films Incorporated company, Chicago, Ill. Performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Includes interviews with Ailey and Judith Jamison.

RUTH ST. DENIS FILM
Filmed by Phillip Baribault. Choreographed and performed by Ruth St. Denis. Music: Clifford Vaughan. Costume: Adolphine Rott.1948.

NEW DANCE - HUMPHREY
1 reel. 33 1/2 min. 1221 ft. : sd. color. ; 16 mm. Note Filmed in performance during the American Dance Festival at Connecticut College on June 30, 1972 by Ted Steeg Productions. Choreography: Doris Humphrey (prelude and third theme by Charles Weidman) Music: Wallingford Riegger. Reconstructed in 1972 by Charles Weidman, Edith (Orcutt) Cluman, and Beatrice Seckler. Variations and conclusions staged by Jennifer Muller and Christine Clark under the authorization of the Dance Notation Bureau. Costumes reconstructed by Betty Williams from original designs by Pauline Lawrence. Performed by members of the American Dance Festival Repertory Company (directed by Charles Reinhart and Martha Myers) with Linda Tarnay in Doris Humphrey's role and Peter Woodin in Charles Weidman's role.

RITE OF SPRING
The search for Nijinsky's Rite of spring [videorecording] / a co-production of WNET/New York and Danmarks Radio in association with Czechoslovak Television and BBC, La Sept, NOS Television ; dance directed by Thomas Grimm ; documentary directed by Judy Kinberg ; produced by Judy Kinberg and Thomas Grimm. Imprint New York, N.Y. : WNET/13, 1989.

KINETIC MOLPAI
1 film reel. 25 min. 599 ft. : si. b&w. ; 16 mm. Note Choreography: Ted Shawn. Performed by Ted Shawn and his men dancers. For Shawn's taped remarks and music for this film see *MGZTC 3-299 Shawn, Ted. Kinetic molpai: commentary and music. [n.d.] Contents CONTENTS.--Prologue, Ted Shawn and 8 men.--Strife, 8 men.--A study in opposition, 8 men.--Solvent, Ted Shawn.--Dynamic contrasts, 8 men.--Resilience, 3 men.--Successions, 8 men.--Unfolding and folding, Ted Shawn.--Dirge, 8 men.--Limbo, 6 men.--Surge, 8 men.--Apotheosis, Ted Shawn and 8 men.

BATTY MOVES
Urban Bush Women company videotape, (718) 398-4537

DANCE BLACK AMERICA
Dance Black America [videorecording] / produced by State University of New York and Pennebaker Associates Inc. ; festival produced by State University of New York and Brooklyn Academy of Music ; [video] directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker with David Dawkins ; festival directed by Patricia Kerr Ross and Mikki Shepard. Imprint U.S. : Pennebaker Associates, c1984 ; Pennington, N.J. : distributed by Dance Horizons Video, 1990.

BLACK AND BLUE
Directed by Robert Altman, for public television 1993

BALANCHINE VIDEOS
Balanchine Celebration, part one [videorecording] / produced by Thirteen/WNET in association with New York City Ballet, NVC Arts, and NOS Television ; directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Judy Kinberg ; choreography by George Balanchine. Imprint New York, N.Y. : Thirteen/WNET, c1993.

NIGHT JOURNEY
Producer: Nathan Kroll. Director: Alexander Hammid. Photographer: Stanley Meredith. Choreographer: Martha Graham. Sets: Isamu Noguchi. Score: William Schuman. Cast: Martha Graham (Jocasta), Bertram Ross (Oedipus), Paul Taylor (Tiresias), Helen McGehee (leader of the chorus), Ethel Winter, Mary Hinkson, Linda Hodes, Akiko Kanda, Carol Payne, and Bette Shaler.

STEPS IN THE STREET
Martha Graham [videorecording] / co-produced by Caméras Continentales and La Sept Theatre and Music Department, Guillaume Gronier ; BBC presentation, Bob Lockyer ; director, Peter Mumford ; producer, Fiona Morris.
United Kingdom : British Broadcasting Corporation, c1991.

BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM (Trio A)
1 videocassette. 60 min. : sd. color NTSC. ; 3/4 in. (U-matic) Note Telecast on WNET-TV's Dance in America series on May 21, 1980. Producers: Merrill Brockway and Carl Charlson. Director: Merrill Brockway. Writer: Faubion Bowers. Narrator: Alan Titus. Lighting design: Ralph Holmes. Consultants: Carolyn Brown, Roger Copeland, and Tobi Tobias. Documentary material: Robert Alexander, Leo Castelli Gallery, Experiments in Art and Technology, First New York Theatre Rally, Peter Miller, Claes Oldenburg, Carlota Schoolman, and Elaine Summers. Still photographs: Peter Moore. Portions of program taped at the Larry Richardson Dance Foundation.