best. "Dance History" will be an essential purchase for all students of dance.
List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors
viii
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Part I A rationale and methodology for dance history
Historical perspectives in the study of dance
3
(15)
June Layson
Dance history source materials
18
(14)
June Layson
The dance history literature: a reader's guide
32
(13)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Part II Historical studies of dance in its traditional, social and theatrical contexts
Traditional dance: English ceremonial and social forms
45
(14)
Theresa Buckland
Traditional dance in West Africa
59
(22)
Georgiana Gore
Regional evidence for social dance with particular reference to a Yorkshire spa town, Harrogate, UK
81
(17)
Patricia Mitchinson
Ballets lost and found: restoring the twentieth-century repertoire
98
(19)
Kenneth Archer
Millicent Hodson
Enrico Cecchetti: the influence of tradition
117
(15)
Giannandrea Poesio
Rambert Dance Company Archive, London, UK
132
(19)
Jane Pritchard
European early modern dance
151
(18)
Michael Huxley
Expression and expressionism in American modern dance
169
(13)
Deborah Jowitt
Beyond expressionism: Merce Cunningham's critique of `the natural'
182
(16)
Roger Copeland
Re-tracing our steps: the possibilities for feminist dance histories
198
(21)
Carol Brown
Part III Studying and writing dance history
Pathways to studying dance history
219
(12)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Writing dance history
231
(21)
June Layson
Appendix A: Dance history texts annotated
252
(22)
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Appendix B: Selected list of reference texts
274
(10)
Judith Chapman
Appendix C: Selected list of periodicals
284
Judith Chapman
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