Understanding Dance
- Author: McFee, Graham
Understanding Dance
- Author: McFee, Graham
Purchase product
Other available formats
About
Understanding Dance is a comprehensive introduction to the aestethetics of dance, and will be an essential text for all those interested in dance as an object of study.
Focusing on the work of a number of major choreographers, companies and critics Graham McFee explores the nature of our understanding of Dance by considering the practice of understanding dance-works themselves. He concludes with a validation of the place of dance in society and in education. Troughout he provides detailed insights into the nature and appreciation of art as well as a general grouding in philosophy.
Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Groundwork
- Chapter 1 Basic Concepts for Aesthetics
- Part 2 The Nature of Dance
- Chapter 2 Dance as Action
- Chapter 3 Dance as Art
- Chapter 4 Dance as a Performing Art
- Chapter 5 Dance as an Object of Understanding
- Part 3 Understanding of Dance
- Chapter 6 Understanding and Dance Criticism
- Chapter 7 Understanding, Experience and Criticism
- Chapter 8 The Point of Dance
- Part 4 IV Concepts for Understanding
- Chapter 9 Style and Technique
- Chapter 10 Imagination and Understanding
- Chapter 11 Intention and Understanding
- Chapter 12 Expression in Dance
- Part 5 Applications and Implications
- Chapter 13 Aesthetic Education
- Chapter 14 Dance and Society
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography Index
