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  | | Martha Graham in Love and War(Reprint) The Life in the Work by Mark Franko Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-936785-6, ISBN: 0-19-936785-X "Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by restoring their rich historical and personal context. Graham matured as an artist during the global crisis of fascism, th ..." |
 | | Excursion for Miracles Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance (1955-1964) by Mark Franko, Juliet Mcmains Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6744-4, ISBN: 0-8195-6744-2 "Excursion for Miracles is an intimate portrait of the early choreographic careers of Donya Feuer and Paul Sanasardo, and the artistic significance of their Studio for Dance in New York City. These two dynamic individuals were committed to breaking set ways of thinking about dance in relation to life, and their work with a group of very young children and dancers such as Pina Bausch anticipated radical cultural thought of the 1960s, part ..." |
 | | The Work of Dance(1st Edition) Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s by Mark Franko Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6553-2, ISBN: 0-8195-6553-9 "In this insightful new book, Mark Franko explores the many genres of theatrical dancing during the radical decade of the 1930s and their relationship to labor movements, including Fordist and unionist organizational structures, the administrative structures of the Federal Dance and Theatre Project, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and the Communist Party. Franko shows how the structures of labor organization were reproduc ..." |
 | | Dance as Text(2nd Edition) Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory) by Mark Franko Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-979401-0, ISBN: 0-19-979401-4 "Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the forma ..." |
 | | Martha Graham in Love and War The Life in the Work by Mark Franko Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-977766-2, ISBN: 0-19-977766-7 "Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most famous creations, those from the World War II era, by restoring their rich historical and personal context. Graham matured as an artist during the global crisis of fascism, th ..." |
 | | Acting on the Past(1st Edition) Historical Performance Across the Disciplines by Mark Franko, Annette Richards Paperback, 253 Pages, Published 2000 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6395-8, ISBN: 0-8195-6395-1 "Performance studies have been increasingly influential on recent developments in musicology, theater, art, and dance history, as these fields shift from primarily text-based disciplines to consider performativity, subjective experience, and particularized practice. At the same time, the editors argue, investigations into the pre- and early-modern periods have been rare in performance studies. Acting on the Past assembles some of the for ..." |
 | | The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory) by Mark Franko Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-750333-1, ISBN: 0-19-750333-0 "Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded. Having migrated to France from Russia in 1923 to join Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Lifar was appointed star dancer and ballet director at the Paris Op�ra in 1930. Despite being rather unpopular wi ..." |
 | | Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics(1st Edition) by Mark Franko Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20947-4, ISBN: 0-253-20947-1 ""... almost every page offers provocative commentary on the aesthetics and politics of modern dance." -- Signs"... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal"This complex and important book ..." |
 | | Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics by Mark Franko Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1995 by Indiana Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-253-32432-0, ISBN: 0-253-32432-7 ""Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics" is a revisionary account of the evolution of "modern dance." Questioning the common notion that the dancing image reflects a relation of dance to culture, Mark Franko calls for a historicization of aesthetics that considers the often-ignored political dimension of expressive action. Employing an interdisciplinary approach to dance analysis, Franko draws from performance studies, feminist studies, ..." |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment(1st Edition) (Oxford Handbooks) by Mark Franko Hardcover, 680 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-931420-1, ISBN: 0-19-931420-9 "The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, an ..." |
 | | Ritual and Event Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies) by Mark Franko Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-54411-5, ISBN: 0-415-54411-4 "Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. The essays collected here reassess and revise traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making as well as ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and ..." |
 | | Excursion for Miracles Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance (1955-1964) (Hardback) by Mark Franko Library, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6743-7, ISBN: 0-8195-6743-4 |
 | | The Work of Dance Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s by Mark Franko Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6552-5, ISBN: 0-8195-6552-0 "Here, Mark Franko explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labour in the 1930s. The contributions of many important personalities of American theatrical, visual and literary culture are included in this study." |
 | | Dance as Text Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics) by Mark Franko Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43392-1, ISBN: 0-521-43392-4 "Dance as Text is an historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Utilising aesthetic and ideological criteria, Mark Franko analyses court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that character ..." |
 | | Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography 86(1st Edition) by Mark Franko Hardcover, 102 Pages, Published 1986 by Summa Pubns ISBN-13: 978-0-917786-39-6, ISBN: 0-917786-39-4 "1 1 7-1 3 1 ; see also Ingrid Brainard, "The Role of the Dancing Master in Fifteenth Century Courtly Society," in Fifteenth ... see Otto Kinkeldey, A Jewish Dancing Master of the Renaissance: Guglielmo Ebreo (New York: Dance Horizons, 1972)." |
 | | Ritual and Event(1st Edition) Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies) by Mark Franko Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-70181-5, ISBN: 0-415-70181-3 "Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance ..." |
 | | I Want to Go to Heaven but I Don't Want to Die Poems by Mark Franko by Franko, Mark Hard Cover, 60 Pages, Published 2020 by Dorrance Publishing Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-64702-338-6, ISBN: 1-64702-338-6 "I Want to Go to Heaven but I Don’t Want to Die By: Mark Franko Take a journey though author Mark Franko’s observations and inspirations in I Want to God to Heaven but I Don’t Want to Die, his collection that displays many themes, ..." |
 | | Acting on the Past Historical Performance Across the Disciplines by Mark Franko, Annette Richards Hardcover, 253 Pages, Published 2000 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6394-1, ISBN: 0-8195-6394-3 "Performance studies have been increasingly influential on recent developments in musicology, theater, art, and dance history, as these fields shift from primarily text-based disciplines to consider performativity, subjective experience, and particularized practice. At the same time, the editors argue, investigations into the pre- and early-modern periods have been rare in performance studies. Acting on the Past assembles some of the for ..." |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment by Mark Franko 904 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-084478-3, ISBN: 0-19-084478-7 "Hantelmann, Dorothea von. 2007. Zur Bedeutsamkeit der Performativität von Kunst. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes. (Also available now in translation: How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art's Performativity. Zürich: JRP Ringier and les ... Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung, Bd. 16, edited by Margit Bischof, Claudia Feest, and Claudia Rosiny, 139–155. ... In Original und Revival: Geschichts-Schreibung im Tanz, edited by Chr ..." |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment by Mark Franko 904 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-931421-8, ISBN: 0-19-931421-7 "This approach to performance is indicative of his notion of Permanent Creation: [.. .] I use this word frequently rather than using the word art, because I practice art as creativeness, and often I have defined anti-art as the diffusion of the works coming out of that creativeness, and non-art as being creative without caring whether one's works are diffused or not. Anyway, for me the idea of creation came very soon to imply that cr ..." |
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