A topic within Dance, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
Isadora Duncan
Rejects codified ballet technique for movement drawn from nature and the solar plexus, arguing dance should express inner feeling rather than execute trained steps.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jane Sherman
Reconstructs fifty-six dances of the Denishawn company from the author's own memory, notes and the recollections of surviving company members, arguing these works — which shaped Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey in turn — would otherwise survive nowhere, since none was ever filmed or notated.
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