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University of Pittsburgh Press, Date: 2001. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2001. University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN 0822957507 9780822957508 [US]
ISBN10: 0822957507, ISBN13: 9780822957508, [publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA] Softcover Paperback. The world outside has burst into the studio, writes the influential dancer, teacher, and choreographer Daniel Nagrin. Many dancers want passionately to confront concrete, difficult subjects. But their formalistic training hasnt prepared them for what they need to say. This book, the first on choreography approached through content rather than structure, is designed with them in mind.Spiced with wit and strong opinions, Choreography and the Specific Image explores, in nineteen far-ranging essays, the art of choreography through the lifes work of an important artist. A career of performance, creativity, and teaching spanning five decades, Nagrin reveals the philosophy and strategy of his work with Helen Tamiris, a founder of modern American dance, and of Workgroup, his maverick improvisation company of the 1970s. During an era when many dancers were working with movement as abstraction, Nagrin turned instead toward movement as metaphor, in the belief that dance should be about something. In Choreography and the Specific Image, Nagrin shares with the next generation of dancers just how that turn was accomplished.It makes no sense to make dances unless you bring news, he writes. You bring something that a community needs, something from you: a vision, an insight, a question from where you are and what churns you up. In a workbook following the ...
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr 2001 Softcover New 1st edition. 288 pages. 9.00x8.00x0.75 inches.
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