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Dancing Across Modernities
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Chapter 1:
Introduction
Overture
Setting the Stage
Public Performances
The Dancer in the World
Chapter Summaries
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Chapter 2:
A Dancing Tour of the World
Overture
Dancing to the Music of Time
Moving Between Art and Ethnography
The World in a Kaleidoscope
Writing Dance Around the World
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Chapter 3:
Dancers on Tour
Overture
Ballets Russes
Solo Dancers
Dancing into Poetry: La Meri
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Chapter 4:
Looking at Spanish Dance
Overture
Encounters with Spanish Dance
Eclecticism: Tórtola Valencia
Regionalism: Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina’
Vanguardism: Vicente Escudero
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Chapter 5:
Projections
Overture
“Everything I Do is a Dance”
Chaplin the Foreigner
International Chaplins
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Chapter 6:
Loose Threads
Overture
Dance and its Spaces
Dance and Design
Dance and Film
Dance and Writing
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Chapter 7:
Coda
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