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This book traces the intellectual history of twentieth-century dance theory from its dependence on aesthetics for its model of conceptualization to its emergence as an autonomous field, primarily dependent on dance practice and experience. This history is traced through the analysis of writing on dance by dance theorists Elizabeth Selden, Margaret H'Doubler, John Martin, Rudolf Laban and aestheticians Suzanne K. Langer, R.G. Collingwood, Nelson Goodman, and eleven other aestheticians who discussed dance in their aesthetic analyses of the arts. The analysis is organized by the author's Framework of Topics Intrinsic to Dance Theory, which was inductively derived from all the writings and the author's extensive experience in dance.

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'Dance-Based Dance Theory' is a considerable and unique contribution to the field of dance studies. (EP, Academic Library Book Review)

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The Author: Judith B. Alter has an M.A. in Dance from Mills College and an M.A. in Teaching Social Studies and an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently teaching dance philosophy and graduate dance education as an associate professor in the Dance Department at UCLA. She previously taught dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Tufts University. She published articles on dance theory, dance history, and creativity, and is author of Surviving Exercise (1983), Stretch and Strengthen (1986) and Dancing and Mixed Media (Peter Lang, 1994,1996).

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