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Dance as the autobiographical creation of individual artists - 4 sessions
 How can concert dance be an intimate, personal expression? A focus on contemporary dance in the United States, with an examination of the work of Matha Graham, Yvonne Rainer, Twyla Tharp, and Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor.

    
                 
     
Unit Assignments
      
 
       
 
read: "Modernizing Dance" in Dancing pp 190-237
     
     

 

        
 
read:Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land” by Bill T. Jones and Peggy Gillespie in America Dancing pp 227 - 233
      
                 
 
read: Deborah Jowitt, "The Private View of Dance Criticism" The Dance Has Many Faces, Walter Sorell, ed., Third Revised Edition, 1992: 202-209
      
     

 

        
 
read: Martha Graham, "I Am a Dancer" in Routledge Dance Studies Reader pp 66-71
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read: Carol Brown, "Re-tracing our steps: The Possibilities for Feminist Dance Histories" in Dance History: An Introduction edited by Janet Adshead-Lansdale and June Layson, Routledge, 1983, 198-216
    
       
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   view:Martha Graham "Steps in the Street" from Chronicle (1936)    
 
       
 
  view: Yvonne Rainer, "Trio A" (1966)
       
       
 
  view:Martha Graham Night Journey (1947)
       
 
 

view:Merce Cunningham Story (1963)

Story Part Two (1963)