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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gayle Kassing |
| ISBN: | 9780736060356 0736060359 |
| OCLC Number: | 70660004 |
| Description: | xviii, 309 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Getting started -- Capturing dance from the past -- Tools for capturing the past -- Early dance history -- Dance at the dawn of time -- Ancient civilizations -- Middle Ages through the Renaissance -- Modern history: Renaissance to the twentieth century -- Dance at court: late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Dance from court to theater: the eighteenth century -- Romantic to classic ballet: the nineteenth century -- Dance in the United States: seventeenth century through the nineteenth century -- Twentieth century American dance -- Foreign influences: 1900-1929 -- Emerging American dance: 1930-1944 -- Maturing classics: 1945-1959 -- Chance and change: 1960-1979 -- New directions: 1980-2000 -- Appendix A: developing a webquest -- Appendix B: significant dance works -- Appendix C: how to write a research paper -- Appendix D: reconstruction project -- Appendix E: performance, video, or dvd report -- Appendix F: ideas for extended and culminating projects for parts i. |
| Responsibility: | Gayle Kassing. |
Abstract:
Provides information for dance teachers and students, as well as a reference for dance professionals. This book uses an investigative approach to the history of dance and its appreciation as an art
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