Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance

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Tilden Russell (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, Southern Connecticut State University)

Dance Theory

Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance

Tilden Russell (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, Southern Connecticut State University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
15 April 2020

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The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance revives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a coherent reading of the interaction of theory and practice during two millennia of dance history. In fifty-five selected readings with explanatory text, this book follows the various constructions of dance theories as they have morphed and evolved in time, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.

Dance Theory is a collection of source readings that, commensurate with current teaching practice, foregrounds dance and performance theory in its presentation of western dance forms. Divided into nine chapters organized chronologically by historical era and predominant intellectual and artistic currents, the book presents a history of an idea from one generation to another. Each chapter contains introductions that not only provide context and significance for the individual source readings, but also create narrative threads that link different chapters and time periods. Based entirely on primary sources, the book makes no claim to cite every source, but rather, in connecting the dots between significant high points, it attempts to trace a coherent and fair narrative of the evolution of dance theory as a concept in Western culture.

Edited by: Tilden Russell (Professor Emeritus of Music Professor Emeritus of Music Southern Connecticut State University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 166mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 596g
ISBN: 9780190059750
ISBN 10: 0190059753
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 15 April 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Dance Theory as a Problem in Dance History Chapter 1. Dance Theory to ca. 1300 1.1. Plato 1.2. Aristotle 1.3. Plutarch 1.4. Lucian of Samosata 1.5. Johannes de Grocheio Chapter 2. The Renaissance 2.1. Domenico da Piacenza 2.2. Antonio Cornazano 2.3. Guglielmo Ebreo 2.4. Thoinot Arbeau 2.5. Fabritio Caroso Chapter 3. The Seventeenth Century 3.1. François De Lauze 3.2. Claude-François Menestrier Chapter 4. The Early Enlightenment: German and English Dance Theory, 1703-1721 4.1. Samuel Rudolph Behr 4.2. Johann Pasch 4.3. Gottfried Taubert 4.4. John Weaver Chapter 5. Dance Theory from Feuillet to the Encyclopédie 5.1. Giambatista Dufort 5.2. Bartholome Ferriol y Boxeraus 5.3 Pierre-Alexandre Hardouin 5.4. Louis de Cahusac Chapter 6. Divergent Paths: Noverre 6.1. Jean-Georges Noverre 6.2. Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 6.3. Johann George Sulzer 6.4. Gennaro Magri 6.5. Charles Compan Chapter 7. The Nineteenth Century and Fin de siècle: Practice Ascendent 7.1. Jean-Étienne Despréaux 7.2. Carlo Blasis 7.3. Arthur St. Léon 7.4. G. Léopold Adice 7.5. Friedrich Albert Zorn 7.6. Eugène Giraudet 7.7. Edmond Bourgeois Chapter 8. The Twentieth Century: Modernist Theory 8.1. Rudolf von Laban 8.2. Margaret N. H'Doubler 8.3. African American Dance Theory I 8.3a. Zora Neale Hurston, and 8.3b. Katherine Dunham 8.3c. Robert Farris Thompson 8.3d. Brenda Dixon Gottschild 8.4. Martha Graham 8.5a. Alwin Nikolais, and 8.5b. Murray Louis 8.6a. Flavia Pappacena, and 8.6b. Susanne Franco Chapter 9. Postmodern Dance Theory and Anti-Theory 9.1a. Merce Cunningham, and 9.1b,c. Yvonne Rainer 9.2. Susan Leigh Foster 9.3. André Lepecki and Jenn Joy 9.4. African American Dance Theory II 9.4a. Thomas F. DeFrantz, and 9.4b. Anita Gonzalez 9.4c. Halifu Osumare 9.4d. Nadine George-Graves 9.4e. Philipa Rothfield and Thomas F. DeFrantz 9.5a. Susan Leigh Foster, and 9.5b. P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) 9.6a. Kent De Spain, and 9.6b. Janet Lansdale 9.7. Gabriele Brandstetter Appendix: Table of Dance Periodization Bibliography Index

Tilden Russell is Professor Emeritus of Music at Southern Connecticut State University. The Compleat Dancing Master (2012), his two-volume translation with commentary of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, received the Society of Dance History Scholars' de la Torre Bueno Prize Special Citation. He further explores early eighteenth-century German dance theory in Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance: The German-French Connection (2017), and is co-author, with Dominique Bourassa, of The Menuet de la cour (2007). He has written and lectured on Taubert and his contemporaries, dance theory, the minuet and scherzo, and other topics in dance and music history, with articles published in Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, The Journal of Musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, Acta musicologica, Imago musicae, Beethoven Forum, The New Grove 2nd edition, and elsewhere.

Reviews for Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance

Tilden Russell's book is for dance theory what Oliver Strunk's Source Readings was for music history, in 1950: the first comprehensive compilation of primary-source writings in its field in English. With his commentary on these judiciously selected and (where necessary) expertly translated texts, Russell traces the serpentine, and sometimes discontinuous, path of important thinking on dance over the centuries, going a long way toward providing the overarching history of dance theory that we still lack. * Bruce Alan Brown, University of Southern California * Tilden Russell provides a fascinating and all-encompassing look at dance theory from the Greeks to the early 21st century through primary source readings, and brings the subject of dance history to vivid life. Dance Theory should be used as the basis of every university dance history course from here on out! * Thomas Baird, The Juilliard School and Purchase College, SUNY *