THE AESTHETIC INTERPRETATION 255 present, a progression in which human society
always accumulated, over the long run, ever-greater degrees of liberty. Butterfield pointed …

In his stimulating essay," Comparative Theatre Historiography," RW Vince quotes Oscar
Brockett's" outline of the nature, scope, materials and methods of historical study, in which …

As the study of dance receives wider representation on college campuse throughout the
United States and as academic organizations concerne with dance scholarship burgeon …

This chapter queries the process of assembling, choosing and interpreting documents from
which dance histories can be told. Amy Koritz has emphasized these circumstances in her …

Philosophers writing on aesthetics used to preface their essays by deploring the low
standard of thought prevailing in that subject. Since they never tried to show that dullness …

The visual arts and, even more so, music have the ability to express only the nature of the
medium: the interplay of colour, surface, and shape, or of tone, rhythm, texture, and …

HUNDREDS of books have been written on the dance and its history, and if we consult this
literature we find that chroniclers of the choreographic art have always had a somewhat …

What is dance history and how does it relate both to history generally and to the study of
dance? If dance history can be regarded as a worthwhile academic activity how might it best …

As chairperson Connie Kreemer welcomed the conferees, cautioning us of" delays,... doors
that you don't know about," she was referring to the logistics of the coming twoday …

This British fear of theory and of the use of interpretive reasoning, whether researching
historical documents or works of art, cannot survive the challenge of poststrucruralist …