![]() | Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey's major choreographic works-- Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)--with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre. Author Lesley Main, a seasoned practitioner of Doris Humphrey choreography, stresses to the reader the need to balance respect for classical works from the modern dance repertory with the necessity for fresh directorial strategies, to balance between traditional practices and a creative role for the reconstructor. Lesley Main is a leading European exponent of Doris Humphrey's dance tradition, director of the Doris Humphrey Foundation UK, and principal lecturer on dance at Middlesex University. |
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