Days on earth : the dance of Doris Humphrey / Marcia B. Siegel

By:

Siegel, Marcia B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, cop.1987Description: xv, 333 p. : il.; 24 cmISBN:

0300038569

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Contents:

Cronologia p.293-296

Summary: Days on Earth traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of protégé José Limon's dance company. Siegel's reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793.5 (hum) SIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900027599

Filmografia p.297-299. Bibliografia p.321-324. Índex p.327-333

Days on Earth traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of protégé José Limon's dance company. Siegel's reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer

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