Dance, Modernism, and Modernity

by Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt

Book Overview

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.

Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138313041
• ISBN13: 9781138313040
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"