The Body Is a Clear Place and Other Statements on Dance 9780871271662, 9780871272713, 0871271664, 0871272717

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1 The Rite in Theater......Page 14
2 Theatre Structure for a New Dance Poetry......Page 21
3 Modern Dance as a Voyage of Discovery......Page 25
4 Questions and Answers......Page 51
5 The Body is a Clear Place......Page 72
6 My Love Affair with Music......Page 99
7 Inmost Heaven, or The Normative Ideal......Page 109
8 Dance as a Metaphor of Existence......Page 120
9 The Principle of a Thing......Page 141
10 Art in Its Second Function......Page 161
Notes......Page 172

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The Body Is

a Clear Place and Other

Statements

on Dance

THE BODY IS A CLEAR PLACE and Other Statements on Dance

by Erick Hawkins

Foreword by Alan Kriegsman

A Dance Horizons Book Princeton Book Company, Publishers Princeton, NJ

Lo\-er photo o t Frick Hawkins by Joe Kirkish in ( ; e o y a p / ~ yd r Noon. 1964. Back cover photo of the author by Joan Tcdeschi. Copyright i)1992. Erick Hawkins in Trailbreaker, 1940. Photo by Barbara Morgan. Erick Hawkins in Free State-tiamas, 1943, Photo bp Barbara Morgan. Erick Hawkins in Yankee Blurbritclxs, 1940. Photo hy Rarbsra Morgan. EI-ick Hawkins in Here and N o w W t h Khtcher.r, 1957. Photo by A. John Geraci. f,,rick Hawkinc in "Pine Tree" from 8 Clear I'luec, 1960. Photo by Dan K ramer. Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugos7ew\ki in (;eography sf Xoon, 1964. Photo by Michael Avedon. Erick Hawkins in "Thun&r" from RLzck Lske, 1969. Photo by Ted Yaple. Erick Hawkins as John Brown in God'i Angry Man, 1945. I'hoto hy Michacl Avedon. Erick Hau-kins in fiirdked Leoplcrd, 1966. Photo by blichaei Avedon. Iirick Hawkins dnd Cynthia Reynold\ in Death Is d Hunter, 1986. Photo hy Martha Swope. Copyright