It was indeed an adventure for those pioneers in France who struggled for the recognition of the new-born dance of the twentieth century - from the free dance of Isadora Duncan, through the absolute dance of Mary Wigman, to the modern dance of Martha Graham. Jacqueline Robinson has lived at the heart of this adventure, sharing the aspirations of a whole generation who often suffered from the lack of understanding of an establishment more inclined towards classical ballet. From the breaking of the soil in the twenties, to the flowering in the sixties, here is a chronicle of the changing landscape of French dance. Here is the story of those men and women, ploughmen and poets, rebels and visionaries - the recollection of those events that made it possible for dance as an art form in Western countries to rise again as a fundamental expression of the human spirit.
Author(s): Jacqueline Robinson
Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 478
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgements
List of plates
Exergue
Foreword
Prelude: Indelible Ephemera
Introduction
An Epic
The Sense of the Phylum
Modern Dance in the Birth-Place of Classical Dance
Virginity and Creation
Terminology
From Yesterday to Today
Contemporary Opinions
Fertility, Frivolity and Digressions
Dance to Serve Man? Man to Serve Dance?
Keys to Reading
Part I: 1920-1930: The Ground-Breaking Years
Chronology
Dance in the Roaring Twenties
The Influence of the Ballets Russes (and Waslaw Nijinsky)
Modern Dance is First and Foremost 'Individual'
Isadora, the Symbol
In the Wake of Isadora
The Body Rehabilitated
Harmonic Gymnastics
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Rudolf von Laban
Other Influences
The Plastic Arts
Exoticism
Venues for the New Dance
A Similar Volapiik of Movements?
The Actors
Institutions
The Ballets Suédois 1920-1924
The Duncan Line
Raymond Duncan
Elisabeth Duncan
Irma Duncan
Lisa Duncan by Odile Pyros
Ellen Tels-Rabanek
Postscript on the Legacy of Isadora by Madeleine Lytton
The Laban and Dalcroze Lines
Dussia Bereska
Marie-Louise van Veen
Jacqueline Chaumont
Marie Kummer
The Independent Ones
Georges Pomiès
Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff by Denise Blanc-Raillard
Hélène Vanel and Loïs Hutton
Yvonne Redgis
Paul Swan
Charlotte Bara
Yvonne Sérac
Isabel de Etchessary
The Educators
François Malkowski
Renée Odic Kintzel
Irène
Popard
The Orientals
Jeanne Ronsay
Nyota Inyoka
Djemil Anik
Uday Shankar
Raden Mas Jodjana
Conclusion
Part II: 1930-1939: The Tilling Years
Chronology
Dance: from the Ground-Breaking to the
Ploughing of the Land
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman in Paris in 1931
The Wave from Central Europe
Tours and Venues
A Diversity of Tendencies
The Actors
Institutions
The Archives Intemationales de la Danse
The Laban and Wigman Lines
Jean Weidt by Dominique Dupuy
Heinz Finkel
Ludolf Schild by Lise Brunei
Mila Cirul
Julia Marcus
Doryta Brown
The Dalcroze and Hellerau-Laxenburg Line
Anita Wiskeman by Florence Poudru
Hélène Carlut by Florence Poudru
Doris Halphen, Maïan Pontan and the Hellerau-Laxenburg School
Defectors from Classical Dance
Jean Serry
Janine Solane
The Independent Ones
Marguerite Bougai
Tony Gregory
Freddy Wittop
Josette and Renée Foatelli
The Educators
Fée Hellès by Denise Coutier
Liliane Arlen and Viennese Dance
Conclusion
Part III: 1945-1960: The Sowing Years
Chronology
The Return to Peace
New Landscapes
Our Own 'Modern' Dancers
Grafts
Turning Towards the Roots
Trends of 'Culture for the Masses'
Jacques Copeau and his Heritage
Travail et Culture (T.E.C.)
Éducation par le jeu dramatique (E.P.J.D.)
Spiritual Awakening
Scouts
Expression through the Body
Institutions that Foster Dance
The Birth of the Body
The Actors
Institutions
Jean Dorey and Danse et Culture
Dinah Maggie and Association Française de Recherches Chorégraphiques (A.F.R.E.C.) and the Théâtre d'Essai de la Danse
French Dancers of European Descent
Anne Gardon
Geneviève Mallarmé
Raymonde Lombardin
Charles Antonetti
Jacqueline Levant
Suzanne
Rémon
Claude Stéphane
Française and Dominique Dupuy and The Ballets Modemes de Paris
The Grafts
Jerome Andrews by Delphine Rybinski
Jacqueline Robinson by Geneviève Piguet
Laura Sheleen
Karin Waehner
Muriel Topaz
Paul d' Arnot
Edith Allard
Katherine Henry d'Epinoy
Gilberto Motta
Régine Drengwicz
In the Line of Janine Solane
Rose-Marie Paillet
Denise Blanc-Raillard
Marie-France Babillot
Titane Saint-Hubert
The Independent Ones
Olga Stens
Geneviève Piguet
Frédérique Franchini
Antoinette Guédy
Roger Ribes
The Educators
Hilde Peerbohm by Marie-Madeleine Cosnard, Paul and Annelise Galland, Monique Golhen and Régine Le Bourva
Yvonne Berge
Phyllis Drayson
Mireille Fromantel
Anne-Marie Debatte
From Drama and Mime
Bella Reine
Etienne Decroux
Jacques Lecoq
Marcel Marceau
In the Duncan Line
Madeleine Lytton
Odile Hamelin-Pyros
Conclusion
Part IV: 1960-1970: The Flowering Years
Chronology
Social Changes
The Rights of the Body
The Institutionalization of Dance
Festivals
Companies and Schools
A Digression on Folklore
Competitions
The 'Militants'
Everything Changes
American Influences
The Wave from Latin America
Multiplication
Youth and Vulnerability
The Actors
Institutions
The Introduction of Dance into Parisian Universities by Mireille Arguel
The Growing Presence of Modem Dance in Physical Training Centres
by Mireille Arguel
The Ballet Théâtre
Contemporain
The Théâtre
Français de la Danse
The Théâtre
des Nations
The Châteauvallon Festival
Art, Recherche, Confrontation at the Museum of Modern Art
The Bagnolet Competition: Ballet pour Demain by Nathalie Collantes
French Dancers, Nomadic and Sedentary
Françoise Saint-Thibault
Noëlle Janoli
Françoise Julliot de la Morandiére
Claudine Allegra
Isabelle Mirova
Claude Decaillot
Dora Feïlane
Aline Roux
Annick Maucouvert
Suzon Holzer
Renate Pook
Poumi Lescaut
Anne-Marie Reynaud
The Scholars
Michèle Nadal
Francine Lancelot
Muriel Jaër
Claude Pujade-Renaud
Jacqueline Challet-Haas
Mireille Arguel
Alberte Raynaud
Pinok and Matho
The Educators
Denise Coutier and 'Danse Ma Joie' (D.M.J.)
Jean Bouffort
Françoise
Chantraine
Sylvie Deluz
The 'Science of the Body'
The Graft from Latin America
Arlet Bon
Sara Pardo
Graziella Martinez
Juan Carlos Bellini
Mara Dajanova
Noémie Lapzeson
Paulina Ossona
Paulina Oca
Diana Obedman
Gladys Aleman
Sonia Sanoja
Guillermo Palomares
Jazz and African Dance: Another Turning Towards Roots
Ingeborg Liptay
Christiane de Rougemont
Epilogue
Appendices
The Specialized Press and Writers about Dance
Before the War
La Danse
La Tribune de la Danse
Revue Internationale de Musique et de Danse
Arts et Mouvement
Archives Internationales de la Danse
After the War
Art et Danse
Revue de la Danse
Danse
Les Cahiers de la Danse
Toute la Danse
La Danse
Danse et Rythmes
Les Saisons de la Danse
Chaussons et Petits Rats
Pour la Danse
Danse Perspective
Danse No. I
Empreintes-Écrits Sur la Danse
Danse
Danser-Voir et Vivre la Danse
A Few Authors who Wrote about Dance
Period Pieces: A Few Howlers
Bibliography
In France
Elsewhere
Other books by Jacqueline Robinson
Index
