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Zusatztext Paul Scolieri's newest book Ted Shawn, His Life, Writings and Dances is an outstanding example of rigorous scholarship and compelling narrative. Informationen zum Autor Paul A. Scolieri is Chair & Professor of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the award-winning author of Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest. Klappentext In January 1969, just months before the Stonewall Riots, Ted Shawn (1891-1972) wanted to tell a story about how his life, writings, and dances contributed to the rapidly evolving gay liberation movement around him. Shawn died before he was able to put forth a candid account about how he, the "Father of American Dance," was homosexual, but he scrupulously archived his correspondence, diaries, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the fullsignificance of his choreography would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances tells that story. Zusammenfassung Ted Shawn (1891-1972), is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his protégées Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations in Notes List of Images Chronology Introduction: Firsts and Foremost 1. The Making of Personality Fraternities, 1891-1912 Old World Dancing Masters in a Modern World, 1912-1914 2. An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics Strange Marriage, 1914-1915 Birth of a Dancing Nation, 1915-1917 Drills and Demonstrations, 1917-1918 Afternoon of a Shawn, 1918-1922 Unconscious Eugenics, 1922 3. Tales of a Terpsichorean Traveler A Dancing Geography Lesson, October 1922-April 1923 Castles in Spain, April-May 1923 "Sheiking" in the Desert, May-June 1923 A Dance King and His Empire, July 1923-August 1925 America's Unofficial Ambassadors, August 1925-November 1926 4. America's Greatest Male Dancer A Greater Denishawn, December 1926-October 1929 American Prometheus, 1929-1931 The Price of Pioneering, July 1930-March 1933 5. Seven Magic Years Adventures with Dances, 1933-1936 Modernism on Main Street, 1936-19...
