A Game for Dancers
Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960
Gay Morris

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Trouble with Modern Dance
• Ballet’s Challenge
• Modernist Theory: John Martin, Edwin Denby, John Cage
• Embodying Community
• African-American Vanguardism: 1940s
• African-American Vanguardism: 1950s
• Objectivism’s Consonance
• Notes
• References
• Index

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