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A Game For Dancers
Gay Morris
Wesleyan University Press
215 Long Lane, Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
0819568058 $24.95 1-800-421-1561
Dance and art critic Gay Morris presents A Game For Dancers: Performing
Modernism In The Postwar Years 1945-1960, a study of the challenge
posed to American modern dancers as the Cold War seized hold of
American culture and the genre became categorically institutionalized.
Chapters discuss the changes, for better or worse, imposed upon ballet,
African-American vanguardism, modernist theory, and much more. A
handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this scholarly and
serious-minded scrutiny of a critical phase of the evolution of an art
form.
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