Terpsichore In Sneakers : Post-modern Dance – Sally Banes

Softback

311 pages

Wesleyan University Press

ISBN: 9780819561602

In the early 1960s a small group of adventurous young choregraphers started making a new kind of dance unlike anything that had been seen before – dance that for some observers often raised the pressing question of whether it was dance at all. Post-modernism, a the movement came to be called, rejected the techniques and theories of modern dance in favour of a radically new kind work involving innovative approaches to time, space and movement.

First published in 1977, Sally Banes’ groundbreaking Terpsichore in Sneakers was the first full-scale discussion of the artists who were central to post-modern dance’s rise to pre-eminence, with chapters on Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Meredith Monk, Kenneth King, and the Grand Uniion Dance Group.

This 1987 edition includes a new introduction by Banes.