| Contents |
Part 1. Introduction: Dance, modernism, and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Dance and modernism: A historiographical consideration / Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt -- Dance and modernism: Natural dancing and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Dance and modernism: Transnational currents / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley -- Part 2. Wassily Kandinsky, dance, and interdisciplinary modernism 1908-1914 / Michael Huxley -- Breaking into the male modernist world: Akarova and Margaret Morris / Ramsay Burt -- Modernist dance, war, and precarious life: Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman / Ramsay Burt -- The new ballet: Kurt Jooss, ballet and modernity / Michael Huxley -- The new ballet: Antony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas and the loss of gesture / Ramsay Burt -- Hanya Holm: a modernist pioneer / Michael Huxley -- Modernity, ritual and diasporic culture: Katherine Dunham and Berto Pasuka / Ramsay Burt. |
