No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century

This book chronicles one hundred years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern, and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume is magisterial in scope, encompassing the history of theatrical dance from 1900 through 2000. Beginning with turn-of-the-century dancer-choreographers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine, and a bit later Vaslav Nijinsky, and proceeding through the profusion of dance styles performed today, the book provides an unparalleled view of dance in performance as it changed and grew in the twentieth century.
Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick set dance in broader cultural and historical contexts, examine specific dance works, and explore the contributions of outstanding choreographers, performers, visual artists, impresarios, composers, critics, and other figures. They discuss the breakaway barefoot dance of the early 1900s and demonstrate its links with later forms and styles. With unusual detail, fascinating illustrations, and wide-ranging insights, this book is an indispensable guide to the transformations in the dance scene of the twentieth century.

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• The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators
• Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
• Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
• Anatomy of Movement (Revised Edition)
• Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
• Classical Ballet Technique
• Ballet Pedagogy: The Art of Teaching
• Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology
• Ballet in Western Culture