Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--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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Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1. What Do You Call Your Work, Miss Humphrey?
- Chapter 2. Palace Hotel, 1895-1917
- Chapter 3. Denishawn, 1917-26
- Chapter 4. A New Dance, 1927-28
- Chapter 5. Ecstatic Themes, 1928-31
- Chapter 6. Consolidation, 1930-34
- Chapter 7. Making Dances, 1934-36
- Chapter 8. On the Road, 1936-39
- Chapter 9. Studio Theater, 1939-44
- Chapter 10. Fall and Recovery, 1944-46
- Chapter 11. The Eagle, 1947-51
- Chapter 12. Harmony and Counterpoint, 1952-57
- Chapter 13. Descent into the Dream, 1957-58
- Chronology
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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