The Art of Making Dances

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Rinehart, 1959 - Biography & Autobiography - 189 pages
Art of making dances presents modern dance as theater. It contains a short history of the dance and various chapters discuss design, dynamics, and rhythm of dance. It includes a check list for composers of dances and an appendix of all the dances composed by Miss Humphrey.

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Contents

Sources of Subject MatterWhat to Dance About?
26
The Theme
34
The Ingredients and the Tools
45
Copyright

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About the author (1959)

Doris Humphrey was a dancer and choreographer of the early 20th century who studied and taught dance. She was an original faculty member of both The Bennington School of the Dance and The Julliard School and was the cofounder of the Humphrey-Weidman dance company.

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