Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
by Sally Banes edited by Andrea Harris foreword by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-299-22154-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-22153-9 | Cloth: 978-0-299-22150-8 Library of Congress Classification GV1599.B36 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 792.8
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Sally Banes is the Marian Hannah Winter Professor Emerita of Theater History and Dance Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, Terpsichore in Sneakers, Dancing Women, Democracy’s Body, and Greenwich Village 1963. Andrea Harris is assistant professor of dance at the UW–Madison. A former student of Sally Banes, she contributed to Banes’s earlier book, Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
REVIEWS
"Banes is one of the major dance critics and historians of our time. She explores a wide range of artistic and cultural issues—from experimental art to disco dancing to ballet dancing for elephants—in prose as engaging as it is erudite. Experiencing her mind, as many serious lovers of dance will agree, is a heady experience."—Deborah Jowitt, New York University, author of Time and the Dancing Image
"Before, Between, Beyond maps two paths simultaneously: that of Sally Banes's personal evolution from a young reporter covering contemporary dance at the start of the dance boom of the early 1970s through the full establishment of contemporary dance late in the twentieth century, teamed with her transition into the pioneering dance historian of postmodern dance."—Janice Ross, Stanford University, author of Moving Lessons
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Forewords
Voice of the Zeitgeist: Sally Banes and Her Times
Lynn Garafola 000
Electrification
Joan Acocella 000
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Introduction
Andrea Harris 000
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Dance Before Midnight: Dance Criticism 1974-1988
Substanceless Brutality 000
Bizzare Newborn Universe 000
About Quarry, About Meredith Monk 000
Disco Dance: Boogie Down the Blues 000
The Art of Ballezz 000
Remy Charlip: Changing and Growing and Changing Colors 000
Stepping Into Time (with Noël Carroll) 000
David Gordon, or, the Ambiguities 000
Merce Cunningham 101: An Introductory Course 000
Douglas Dunn Talking Dancing (with Noël Carroll) 000
Patterns 000
A Walk on the Wild Side 000
Bolshoi Bravura 000
Notes on Some Dances 000
Rhythms for the Eyes, Ears and Soles (with Noël Carroll) 000
Awhirl in Every Port 000
Under Glass 000
Trisha Brown and Fujiko Nayaka Play Misty 000
"Men Together" and Bloolips 000
Paul Taylor Dance Company 000
10¢ a Dance: The Funds Over 000
Nearly Sort of Not Dance Maybe 000
Choreographer steps spryly into television 000
Joffrey's presentation of Sacre is a scintillating reconstruction 000
Between the Arts
From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs (with John Szwed) 000
Theatre of Operations: Stuart Sherman's Fifteen Films 000
Imagination and Play: The Films of Ericka Beckman 000
The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet 000
Homage, Plagiarism, Allusion, Comment, Quotation: Negotiating Choreographic Appropriation 000
Institutionalizing Avant-Garde Performance: A Hidden History of University Patronage 000
Olfactory Performances 000
Beyond the Millennium: Recent Dance Writings
Our Hybrid Tradition 000
The Scent of a Dance 000
Choreographing Community: Dancing in the Kitchen 000
"A New Kind of Beauty": From Classicism to Karole Armitage's Early Ballets 000
TV-Dancing Women: Music Videos, Camera-Choreography, and Feminist Theory 000
Elephants in Tutus 000
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Contributors 000
Index 000
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Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
by Sally Banes edited by Andrea Harris foreword by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-299-22154-6 eISBN: 978-0-299-22153-9 Cloth: 978-0-299-22150-8
Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Sally Banes is the Marian Hannah Winter Professor Emerita of Theater History and Dance Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, Terpsichore in Sneakers, Dancing Women, Democracy’s Body, and Greenwich Village 1963. Andrea Harris is assistant professor of dance at the UW–Madison. A former student of Sally Banes, she contributed to Banes’s earlier book, Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
REVIEWS
"Banes is one of the major dance critics and historians of our time. She explores a wide range of artistic and cultural issues—from experimental art to disco dancing to ballet dancing for elephants—in prose as engaging as it is erudite. Experiencing her mind, as many serious lovers of dance will agree, is a heady experience."—Deborah Jowitt, New York University, author of Time and the Dancing Image
"Before, Between, Beyond maps two paths simultaneously: that of Sally Banes's personal evolution from a young reporter covering contemporary dance at the start of the dance boom of the early 1970s through the full establishment of contemporary dance late in the twentieth century, teamed with her transition into the pioneering dance historian of postmodern dance."—Janice Ross, Stanford University, author of Moving Lessons
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Forewords
Voice of the Zeitgeist: Sally Banes and Her Times
Lynn Garafola 000
Electrification
Joan Acocella 000
<LINE SPACE>
Introduction
Andrea Harris 000
<LINE SPACE>
Dance Before Midnight: Dance Criticism 1974-1988
Substanceless Brutality 000
Bizzare Newborn Universe 000
About Quarry, About Meredith Monk 000
Disco Dance: Boogie Down the Blues 000
The Art of Ballezz 000
Remy Charlip: Changing and Growing and Changing Colors 000
Stepping Into Time (with Noël Carroll) 000
David Gordon, or, the Ambiguities 000
Merce Cunningham 101: An Introductory Course 000
Douglas Dunn Talking Dancing (with Noël Carroll) 000
Patterns 000
A Walk on the Wild Side 000
Bolshoi Bravura 000
Notes on Some Dances 000
Rhythms for the Eyes, Ears and Soles (with Noël Carroll) 000
Awhirl in Every Port 000
Under Glass 000
Trisha Brown and Fujiko Nayaka Play Misty 000
"Men Together" and Bloolips 000
Paul Taylor Dance Company 000
10¢ a Dance: The Funds Over 000
Nearly Sort of Not Dance Maybe 000
Choreographer steps spryly into television 000
Joffrey's presentation of Sacre is a scintillating reconstruction 000
Between the Arts
From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs (with John Szwed) 000
Theatre of Operations: Stuart Sherman's Fifteen Films 000
Imagination and Play: The Films of Ericka Beckman 000
The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet 000
Homage, Plagiarism, Allusion, Comment, Quotation: Negotiating Choreographic Appropriation 000
Institutionalizing Avant-Garde Performance: A Hidden History of University Patronage 000
Olfactory Performances 000
Beyond the Millennium: Recent Dance Writings
Our Hybrid Tradition 000
The Scent of a Dance 000
Choreographing Community: Dancing in the Kitchen 000
"A New Kind of Beauty": From Classicism to Karole Armitage's Early Ballets 000
TV-Dancing Women: Music Videos, Camera-Choreography, and Feminist Theory 000
Elephants in Tutus 000
<LINE SPACE>
Contributors 000
Index 000
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