Authors: Martha Bremser
ISBN-13: 9780415103633, ISBN-10: 0415103630
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Covering today's most important modern, ballet, contemporary and post-modern choreographers in Europe and North America, this unique guide is a valuable quick reference for students and critics, dancers and general readers in love with dance.
Each entry includes a biographical section, a chronological list of works, a detailed bibliography and a critical essay. In entries on choreographers such as Richard Alston, Pina Bausch, Laurie Booth, Christopher Bruce, Jonathan Burrows, Michael Clarke, Merce Cunningham, Anna Theresa De Keersmaeker, Eiko and Koma, William Forsythe,Jiri Kylain, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp and other leading figures, readers can easily locate each choreographer's style and influence within the development of contemporary theatre dance, and swiftly discern the essential facts in his or her career.
Contributors | vii | |
Editor's Note | xi | |
Acknowledgements | xiii | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Richard Alston | 13 | |
Lea Anderson | 18 | |
Karole Armitage | 21 | |
Pina Bausch | 25 | |
Laurie Booth | 29 | |
Matthew Bourne | 34 | |
Trisha Brown | 37 | |
Christoper Bruce | 42 | |
Jonathan Burrows | 47 | |
Rosemary Butcher | 51 | |
Carolyn Carlson | 55 | |
Lucinda Childs | 58 | |
Michael Clark | 63 | |
Robert Cohan | 68 | |
Merce Cunningham | 72 | |
Siobhan Davies | 77 | |
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | 84 | |
Laura Dean | 88 | |
Douglas Dunn | 93 | |
Eiko and Koma | 97 | |
Mats Ek | 100 | |
Garth Fagan | 103 | |
Eliot Feld | 106 | |
William Forsythe | 110 | |
Jean-Claude Gallotta | 115 | |
David Gordon | 118 | |
Bill T. Jones | 123 | |
James Kudelka | 128 | |
Jiri Kylian | 133 | |
Daniel Larrieu | 139 | |
Murray Louis | 141 | |
Lar Lubovitch | 145 | |
Maguy Marin | 150 | |
Susan Marshall | 153 | |
Bebe Miller | 156 | |
Meredith Monk | 159 | |
Mark Morris | 164 | |
Graeme Murphy | 169 | |
Lloyd Newson | 173 | |
Robert North | 176 | |
Kazuo Ohno | 180 | |
Steve Paxton | 184 | |
Stephen Petronio | 189 | |
Pilobolus | 192 | |
Ian Spink | 196 | |
Elizabeth Streb | 201 | |
Kei Takei | 204 | |
Paul Taylor | 207 | |
Glen Tetley | 212 | |
Twyla Tharp | 217 |