Sally Banes: 3 books
Greenwich Village 1963
Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1993
The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington, D.C., from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall, the world was in the throes of political upheaval and historic change. But that same year, in New York's Greenwich Village, another kind of history and a different sort of politics were being...
Dancing Women
Female Bodies Onstage
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that...
Democracy's Body
Judson Dance Theatre, 1962–1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John...