Modern Dance was born at the beginning of the twentieth century out of the need to recreate dance, to tear it away from the formal, stifling rigor of ballet, as well as from the image of other forms of dance as light-weight, sordid entertainment. One...

Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert...

MODERN DANCE, NEGRO DANCE By Susan Manning Universityof Minnesota Press, 291 pp., $34.95 DANCING REVELATIONS By Thomas F. DeFrantz Oxford University Press, 300 pp., $35.00 COLORLINES Opening closet doors, writers reveal dancers' racial, political, and sexual struggles Susan Manning, a...

MUSIC & DANCE On modern dance scene, kids are all right By TOM STRINI of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, August 31, 2003 No field in the performing arts is as misunderstood, underappreciated and underfunded as modern dance. That's why...

Binn there, done that: Get out your English Patient evening gowns, ladies! The Red Cross is somewhat oxymoronically throwing an “Evening of Luxury” charity benefit in East Hampton. On the committee: Epic Records head honcho Charlie Walk, ubiquitous magazine publisher Jason Binn and their charming...

It's commonplace today, but 50 years ago following someone around with a camera without narration, direction, musical accompaniment or even a script was revolutionary.That "cinema verite" technique and its pioneer, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew, were celebrated this weekend by the National Archives and Records Administration...

A comparison of the movement style and motivations of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in the field of modern dance.