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  • “Let the Punishment Fit the Crime”: The Vocal Choreography of Cholly Atkins

  • Jacqui Malone
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / Summer 1988
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    22 July 2014, pp. 11-18
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    Summer 1988

  • From the Twenties through most of the Forties, American tap dance in the jazz/rhythm tradition experienced its heyday. Suddenly in the late Forties, the bottom dropped out for many rhythm tap dancers who had established successful careers in vaudeville, musicals, and with big bands. The great chronicler of jazz dance, Marshall Stearns, died wondering whether or not American vernacular dance was vanishing forever. Even today, many still believe that tap absolutely ended with the advent of rock-and-roll, or that it remained in a deep freeze until its revival in the late Sixties. However, the existence of black vocal groups such as those in the Motor Town Revue helped retain and preserve much of the vocabulary of American vernacular dance, including that of tap. The man largely responsible for this retention and cultural transference was Cholly Atkins, who worked as choreographer for Motown Records from 1965-1971.

  • Court, Church, and Province: Dancing in the Netherlands, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  • Lynn Matluck Brooks
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / Summer 1988
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    22 July 2014, pp. 19-27
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    Summer 1988

  • While considerable scholarly attention has begun to turn to Baroque dance, researchers have most frequently investigated French or English sources. The Netherlands, strongly influenced by both of these nations, has perhaps been overlooked because of its small size, its seemingly minor role relative to larger powers in world affairs in this period, and the difficulty of non-Dutch scholars with the language. Nevertheless, the flourishing Dutch court, the nation's extensive commercial activity, and the cultural wealth of the Netherlands make research into the theatre and dance of this period rewarding and enlightening. Further, the excellent research facilities available in the Netherlands make research in that country a scholar's delight. The intention of this study is to document the dancing activities of the Dutch court, to contrast these with dancing in a distant province of the land, and to explore the effects of religious attitudes on both of these situations.

  • DRJ volume 20 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / Summer 1988
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    22 July 2014, pp. f1-f3
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    Summer 1988
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  • Ephemeral Signs: Apprehending the Idea through Poetry and Dance

  • Mary Lewis Shaw
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / Summer 1988
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    22 July 2014, pp. 3-9
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    Summer 1988

  • Though his dance criticism constitutes no more than a few pages, the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé has come to be considered an important dance theorist. His dance essays set forth a complex and original view of dance as a poetry of the body and prefigure contemporary efforts to study dance as a system of signs. Mallarmé's prose style is, however, notoriously obscure and resistant to translation. Thus despite the power and beauty of their literary expression, his ideas on dance remain largely inaccessible without critical examination. Through a close reading and translation of several of his key passages on dance, this essay will seek to clarify his theory of the aesthetico-metaphysical function of dance and his concept of its relationship to his own art, poetry.

  • DRJ volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    Dance Research Journal / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / Winter 1988
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    22 July 2014, pp. f1-f3
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    Winter 1988
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