Before, Between, and Beyond : Three Decades of Dance Writing

Banes, Sally; Harris, Andrea (EDT); Acocella, Joan Ross (FRW); Garafola, Lynn (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0299221547 / ISBN 13: 9780299221546

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Before, Between, and Beyond : Three Decades of Dance Writing
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299221547
• ISBN 13: 9780299221546
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

     Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.

About the Authors

Sally Banes is the Marian Hannah Winter Professor Emerita of Theater History and Dance Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, Terpsichore in Sneakers, Dancing Women, Democracy’s Body, and Greenwich Village 1963.

Andrea Harris is assistant professor of dance at the UW–Madison. A former student of Sally Banes, she contributed to Banes’s earlier book, Reinventing Dance in the 1960s, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.