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Drawing of the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking terpsichore in sneakers, sally baness writing dancing documents the background and developments of avantgarde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. Rainer, simone forti, steve paxton, and other postmodern choreographers of the sixties were not united in terms of their aesthetic. Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking terpischore in sneakers, sally banes writing. After all, both brown and tharp eventually returned to the proscenium stage and created complex. Terpsichore in sneakers isbn 9780819561602 pdf epub. Postmodern dance wesleyan paperback 2rev ed by sally banes isbn.
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