The Vision of Modern Dance : In the Words of Its Creators

Preface viii Part One THE FORERUNNERS 3(40) Introduction 3(4) Isadora Duncan Excerpts From Her Writings 7(4) Loie Fuller Light And The Dance 11(10) Ruth St. Denis The Dance As Life Experience 21(6) Ted Shawn Constants-What Constitutes A Work Of Art In The Dance 27(6) Mary Wigman Stage Dance-Stage Dancer 33(10) Part Two THE FOUR PIONEERS 43(42) Introduction 43(6) Martha Graham Graham 1937 49(6) Doris Humphrey What A Dancer Thinks About 55(10) Charles Weidman Random Remarks 65(6) Hanya Holm Hanya Speaks 71(14) Part Three THE SECOND GENERATION 85(52) Introduction 85(4) Merce Cunningham You Have To Love Dancing To Stick To It 89(4) Erick Hawkins A Little House To Understand And Protect It 93(4) Jose Limon On Dance 97(10) Anna Sokolow The Rebel And The Bourgeois 107(6) Alwin Nikolais Excerpts From "Nik: A Documentary" 113(10) Paul Taylor Back to Basics 123(8) Alvin Ailey It's About Dance 131(6) Part Four THE NEW REBELS 137(62) Introduction 137(4) Anna Halprin The Process Is The Purpose 141(8) Judith Dunn We Don't Talk About It. We Engage In It. 149(8) Yvonne Rainer The Mind Is A Muscle 157(10) Pilobolus Talking With Pilobolus 167(10) Trisha Brown Douglas Dunn Dialogue On Dance 177(10) Rod Rodgers Don't Tell Me Who I Am 187(6) Twyla Tharp Tank Dive 193(6) Part Five THE NEW VISION 199(18) Introduction Don McDonagh Mark Morris A Passion for Music 203(6) Post-modernism? Excerpts from writings 209(8) Mary Fulkerson Molissa Fenley Bill T. Jones David Gordon Garth Fagan Lucinda Childs Eiko and Koma Deborah Hay Jowale Willa Jo Zollar Selected Bibliography 217(21) Selected Videography 238(3) Index 241