Course Objectives:
Course Requirements:
TRDA 191, Dance History, Professor Buckley
Weekly Schedule
Spring, 2001
January 17
Review Syllabus
Overview of Dance History, examination of cultural, aesthetic,
contextual analysis of dance
How to analyze a dance’s form, content, movement technique
Reading: Jowitt, preface and Vision of Modern Dance,
preface
January 24
Petipa and the Imperial Russian Ballet
Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake
Reading: Jowitt p 241-252
January 29
Isadora Duncan: Moving from the Inside Out
The Bacchanale, 1904 & Mother, 1913
Reading: Jowittp69-102
Vision p 3-10
January 31
Age of Astonishment/Fokine, Diaghilev and the Ballet
Russe
Videos: The Dying Swan (Fokine) 1905
Rite of Spring (Nijinsky, Stravinsky) 1913
Reading: Jowitt p105-123
Jacques Riviere "Le Sacre du Printemps"
February 5
Ruth St. Denis/ Ted Shawn: From Sacred Dance to Jacobs
Pillow
Reading: Jowitt p125-147
Siegel p 11-22
Vision p21-25
February 7
Martha Graham
Frontier (Graham, Noguchi) 1935
Appalachian Spring (Graham, Copeland) 1944
Reading: Jowitt, p 201-233
Siegel p 37-41 & 140-152
Vision p 43-53
February 12
German Modern Dance
Hanya Holm, Mary Wigman, Dore Hoyer
Videos: Witch Dance
Reading: Vision p33-40 & 71-82
Susan Manning: Ecstasy and the Demon, excerpt chapters
1 & 3
February 14
Doris Humphrey
New Dance Trilogy
Reading: Jowitt, p184-198
Siegel p 23-32 & 79-89
Vision p 55-64
February 19
Jose Limon
Moor’s Pavane
Reading: Siegel 168-174 & 305-311
Vision p 97-105
February 21
George Balanchine
Agon
Reading: Jowitt, p 237-241 & 253-274
Siegel p 69-71 & 210-213 &227-234
Ann Daly "George Balanchine (1904-1983)"
Ann Daly "The Balanchine Women: Of Hummingbirds and Channel
Swimmers"
February 26
Midterm
February 28
Black Dance in America: Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus,
Alvin Ailey
Reading: Siegel p285-292
Vision p131-134
"Agnes de Mille "Katherine Dunham"
Albirda Rose Dunham Technique: "A Way of Life"
Constance Valis Hill "Katherine Dunham’s Southland: Protest
in the Face of Repression"
March 5
An American Iconoclast: Merce Cunningham
Reading: Jowitt p277-302
Siegel p 292-299 & 324-332
Vision p 85-91
March 7
Dance/Theatre/Artist
Alwin Nikolais’s Imago
Reading: Jowitt p 241-373
Vision p113-121
March 12
Judson Memorial Church: Post-Modern Dance
Reading: Jowitt p305-337
Siegel. Introductions
Jowitt p 304-337
Vision 137-139
March 14
The No Manifesto: Yvonne Rainer
Video: Trio A & Beyond the Mainstream
Reading: Siegel p41-55
Vision p 157-165
Ann Daly "Everyday Bodies Study Questions"
Robin Silver Hecht "Reflections on the Career of Yvonne
Rainer…"
March 18-24 Spring Break
March 26
Contact Improvisation: Steve Paxton
Reading: Siegel p 57-74
March 28
The Grand Union
Reading: Siegel 203-234
April 2
Dance/Theatre/Music
Meredith Monk
Reading: Jowitt p
Banes p 149-167
April 4
An American Classic: Paul Taylor
Aureole
Reading: Siegel p 299-304 & 332-341
Vision p 123-129
April 9
Twyla Tharp
In the Upper Room, Deuce Coupe, Push Comes to Shove
Reading: Siegel p 262-270 & 351-363
Vision p193-196
April 11
Mark Morris
Vision p203
April 16
Urban Bush Women: Jowale Willa Jo Zollar
Batty Moves
Reading: Vision p 214-215
Tessa Triumph. "Jawole Willa Jo Zollar"
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar "Listen: Our History if Shouting
at Us"
Veta Goler "Life Dances: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Choreographic
Construction of Black Womanhood"
April 18
Eiko & Koma: Cross Cultural Identities
Vision p 213
April 23
Bill T. Jones: Text & Movement
Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Still/Here
April 25
European Dance—Pascale Rioult, Wien & Pina Bausch
April 30
Netherlands Dance: Jiri Kylian