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By Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

ISBN-10: 1439912610

ISBN-13: 9781439912614

ISBN-10: 1439912629

ISBN-13: 9781439912621

When The Phenomenology of Dance used to be first released in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone requested: “When we glance at a dance, what will we see?” Her questions, in regards to the nature of our event of dance and the character of dance as a shaped and played paintings, are nonetheless provocative and acutely major at the present time. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the character of movement.

 

Back in print after approximately two decades, The Phenomenology of Dance presents an educated method of educating dance and to bounce schooling, appreciation, feedback, and choreography. as well as the foreword by means of Merce Cunningham from the unique version, and the preface from the second one variation, this 50th anniversary version comprises an in-depth advent that seriously and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on circulation and dance.

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