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A Dance History Textbook That Leaves Questions Unanswered
Dance Chronicle Pub Date : 2019-05-04 , DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2019.1624487
Kathaleen Boche

As the chair of the Dance History Teachers Discussion Group, I regularly talk to college-level instructors about the class readings they select. Instead of assigning textbooks, some choose individual articles while others draw only from primary sources such as newspaper reviews or artists’ writings. One of the best elements of Jack Anderson’s general textbook Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History is its inclusion of primary sources. However, instructors need to bring context to the discussions the book opens up to help undergraduate students investigate and make meaning out of these sources. Dance history teachers have adopted Anderson’s Ballet and Modern Dance for more than thirty years. When I was an undergraduate dance major, I read the second edition, along with supplemental readings; I recently assigned several chapters as part of the required reading for a dance history class. Ballet and Modern Dance distinguishes itself from the very small pool of other comprehensive dance history texts by providing a broad sweep of Western concert dance history in a readable style and length. For the new third edition, Anderson has revised chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11; he has also added a new chapter 12 and updated the bibliography and the short profiles—one or two-sentence descriptions of important artists and companies. As in the second edition, the bibliography is conveniently divided into subsections including more than forty new sources. The new sources on the development of ballet up to Diaghilev are not reflected in the content of the text, since those chapters are unchanged. The new edition is not radically different from the previous, a fact that has both positive and negative implications. My main critique is that Anderson misses opportunities to add content that might have made the book better suit the needs of a larger and more contemporary audience. Contemporary students might benefit from the inclusion of sections dealing with the history of jazz dance as well as a more inclusive discussion of recent activities by contemporary dancers. If only one dance history course is offered at an institution, then many dance forms need to be included in the course reading. As a founding co-editor of Dance Chronicle and former dance critic for the New York Times, Anderson is a master of dance criticism. Not surprisingly, given this noteworthy background and experience, he has a forthright

中文翻译:

舞蹈史教科书,让问题悬而未决

作为舞蹈史教师讨论组的主席,我经常与大学级别的教师讨论他们选择的课堂阅读材料。有些人选择单独的文章,而不是分配教科书,而有些人则只从主要来源(如报纸评论或艺术家的作品)中汲取灵感。杰克·安德森 (Jack Anderson) 的一般教科书《芭蕾与现代舞:简明历史》的最佳元素之一是它包含了主要来源。然而,教师需要为本书开启的讨论提供背景信息,以帮助本科生调查这些来源并使其有意义。舞蹈史教师采用安德森的芭蕾舞和现代舞已有三十多年了。当我读本科舞蹈专业时,我阅读了第二版以及补充读物;我最近分配了几章作为舞蹈历史课必读的一部分。《芭蕾舞与现代舞》以可读的风格和长度提供了广泛的西方音乐会舞蹈史,从而将自己与其他非常少的综合舞蹈史文本区分开来。对于新的第三版,安德森修订了第 8、9、10 和 11 章;他还添加了新的第 12 章,并更新了参考书目和简短简介——对重要艺术家和公司的一两句话描述。与第二版一样,参考书目被方便地分成小节,包括四十多个新来源。直到佳吉列夫的芭蕾舞发展的新来源并没有反映在文本的内容中,因为这些章节没有改变。新版与之前的版本没有本质的不同,一个既有积极意义又有消极意义的事实。我的主要批评是安德森错过了添加内容的机会,这些内容可能会使这本书更好地满足更多更现代读者的需求。当代学生可能会受益于包含处理爵士舞历史的部分以及对当代舞者最近活动的更具包容性的讨论。如果一个机构只开设一门舞蹈历史课程,那么在课程阅读中需要包括许多舞蹈形式。作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 我的主要批评是安德森错过了添加内容的机会,这些内容可能会使这本书更好地满足更多更现代读者的需求。当代学生可能会受益于包含处理爵士舞历史的部分以及对当代舞者最近活动的更具包容性的讨论。如果一个机构只开设一门舞蹈历史课程,那么在课程阅读中需要包括许多舞蹈形式。作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 我的主要批评是安德森错过了添加内容的机会,这些内容可能会使这本书更好地满足更多更现代读者的需求。当代学生可能会受益于包含处理爵士舞历史的部分以及对当代舞者最近活动的更具包容性的讨论。如果一个机构只开设一门舞蹈历史课程,那么在课程阅读中需要包括许多舞蹈形式。作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 当代学生可能会受益于包含处理爵士舞历史的部分以及对当代舞者最近活动的更具包容性的讨论。如果一个机构只开设一门舞蹈历史课程,那么在课程阅读中需要包括许多舞蹈形式。作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 当代学生可能会受益于包含处理爵士舞历史的部分以及对当代舞者最近活动的更具包容性的讨论。如果一个机构只开设一门舞蹈历史课程,那么在课程阅读中需要包括许多舞蹈形式。作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的 作为舞蹈编年史的创始联合编辑和纽约时报的前舞蹈评论家,安德森是舞蹈评论大师。毫不奇怪,鉴于这个值得注意的背景和经验,他有一个直率的
更新日期:2019-05-04
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