Boris Charmatz: Modern Dance

Etchells, Tim,Cvejic, Bojana,Costinas, Cosmin,Bel, Jà rà me,Almavi, Gilles

ISBN 10: 1633450066 / ISBN 13: 9781633450066

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo, 2017

Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # M1633450066Z2

Synopsis:

MoMA Dance is a new series of monographs exploring dance makers in the twenty-first century. Each volume focuses on a single contemporary choreographer, presenting a rich collection of newly commissioned texts along with a definitive catalogue of the artist’s projects. Accessible, informative, and inspiring, they are indispensible guides to contemporary dance for fans and scholars alike. Since shocking audiences in 1993, at age nineteen, with his radically sparse À bras le corps, Boris Charmatz has emerged as one of France’s leading choreographers. Whether he’s creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a “dancing museum,” Charmatz’s work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action. Featuring original essays and interviews and an oral history by Charmatz’s contemporaries, the book is the first to explore the many facets of his career―as choreographer, writer, and director of France’s Musée de la danse.

From the Back Cover: While there are several intelligent readers available on dance, their emphasis is either more journalistic (as in Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance [2008]) or academic and European (as in André Lepecki's Dance [2012]). This new series of books takes into account the wealth of superb critical writing about dance of the past fifty years and evaluates the developments of new dance worlds (New York's 'downtown' scene, the French 'conceptualists') in the wake of modern and postmodern dance.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Boris Charmatz: Modern Dance
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good